On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 21:31, Todd Lyons wrote:
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> James Sparenberg wanted us to know:
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> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ urpmf libaudio.so
> >> libnas2:/usr/X11R6/lib/libaudio.so.2
> >> libnas2:/usr/X11R6/lib/libaudio.so.2.3
> >> libnas2-devel:/usr/X11R6/lib/libaudio.so
> >locate libaudio.so
> >/usr/X11R6/lib/libaudio.so.2.3
> >/usr/X11R6/lib/libaudio.so.2
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> Those two are the runtime libraries. Note how they're provided by the
> libnas2 package. When linking, it will use the "-laudio" flag which
> means it wants to look for libaudio.so. It doesn't want the .2 or .2.3
> at the end. It wants only lib + {link target} + .so and that's it.
> That file name convention is provided by the -devel package, in this
> case, libnas2-devel.
>
> >Even though I have the rpm in question installed. I don't have that 3rd
> >level of linking. Where so.2 and so link to so.2.3. So what I've found
> >is often when I get the above error. I have 3 steps. One, the one you
> >took. Two, make sure that that 3rd link (the libaudio.so one) is
> >there. and finally I've had to add a bunch to ld.so.conf. things like
> >/usr/lib/ even though the libs are there for reasons unknown some
> >builds don't pick it up unless I had the dir to ld.so.conf and re-run
> >ldconfig. I know this isn't supposed to happen... but. If it works
> >repeatedly I keep repeating it.
>
> I think there's something else going on here. /lib and /usr/lib are
> default paths for ldconfig. Witness another example:
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> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ locate libncurses\. | grep lib | grep -v "a$"
> /usr/lib/libncurses.so.5.3
> /usr/lib/libncurses.so.5
> /usr/lib/libncurses.so
> /lib/libncurses.so.5.3
> /lib/libncurses.so.5
> /lib/libncurses.so
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ locate libncurses\. | grep lib | grep -v "a$" | xargs rpm
> - -qf
> libncurses5-5.3-1.20030215.1mdk
> libncurses5-5.3-1.20030215.1mdk
> libncurses5-devel-5.3-1.20030215.1mdk
> libncurses5-5.3-1.20030215.1mdk
> libncurses5-5.3-1.20030215.1mdk
> libncurses5-devel-5.3-1.20030215.1mdk
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> So libncurses.so is provided by the libncurses5-devel package and
> libncurses.so.* is provided by the libncurses5 package. The first is
> the development package because it's used when compiling programs that
> will use ncurses. The second is the runtime libraries because programs
> that are linked with ncurses need this library to be present to run.
> Unfortunately, I seem to be using a bit of circular logic, maybe someone
> else can explain it a bit better.
Todd I'm not questioning what you are saying, but actually agreeing....
but noting some inconsistent events in the latest MDK's A fresh
install today had this for ld.so.conf
/usr/X11R6/lib
/var/lib
notably missing are /lib /usr/lib and /usr/local/lib (this 3rd one is
debatable as to need.)
james
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