On Tuesday 05 April 2005 21:57, Daniel Nilsson wrote: >On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 10:22:14AM -0400, Charles Lepple wrote: >> On Apr 4, 2005 12:52 AM, Gene Heskett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > On Sunday 03 April 2005 22:35, Marvin Dickens wrote: >> > >On Sunday 03 April 2005 20:24, Gene Heskett wrote: >> >> [...] >> >> > >> Thats called 'updatedb' on *most* distros. >> > > >> > >Yes, it is. However, it doesn't work as advertised on most >> > > distro's. >> > >> > Oh? It seems to be doing a crackerjack job of keeping my >> > 'locate' database in synch with reality here. >> >> It's not the sort of thing you'd want to rely on at build time. If >> you had a new system with no development packages installed, and >> you installed them all just minutes before compiling, the locate >> database would not contain those recently added libraries (unless >> you were burning the midnight oil, and happened to install the dev >> packages just before the database got reindexed). >> >> Now if someone combined fam (file alteration monitor) or something >> the Linux dnotify API with an incremental indexer, you might have >> a shot at noticing when new libraries are installed. > >Even still, this is not what you want to rely on to check what > libraries are available since updatedb and locate will not index > files on NFS servers (thank god, that would never finish in a > corporate >environment). > >If all you are asking is for files on the local computer, why not >simply ask the package manager (rpm, apt etc) if that file is >installed ? One reason might be that the user has installed some > local libraries that he compiled himself, but in that case I would > consider that an advanced user that would also then be able to tell > pkg-config and configure how to find these libraries...
I'm working on it. Call me a clueless advanced user if you'd like. :-) -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.34% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
