On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 07:18:18PM +0000, Edward B. DREGER wrote:
> Greetings all,
> 
> 
> I'd been going nuts trying to determine why I couldn't link against 
> "libdb-4.4.so" and a few other libraries.  The ones in question didn't 
> show up via
> 
>       ldconfig -r
> 
> although their respective directories _were_ found.  (Yes, I even ran 
> "ldconfig -R" for good measure.)  ldconfig seems to "skip" libraries not 
> of the form
> 
>       m/.+\.so\.[0-9]+/
> 
> i.e.,
> 
>       libfoo.so.1
> 
> is found, but
> 
>       libbar.so
>       libsnuzzlycat.so.5.5
> 
> are not.
> 
> Bug or feature?

Feature.

> Is this what I get for straying from ports/packages? 
> ;-)

Probably.

Kris

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