On Wednesday 29 October 2003 08:20, avraham.rosenberg wrote: > Some time ago, I installed debian3.0r1 stable, both at home and at > work. Then, these days, I decided that I need Hebrew support. First > on the console: I wrote a small script that changes the charset and > allows metachars. Sure enough, I was able to read Hebrew and, when > using Hebrew-enabled vim to write as well. Then I looked for libbidi > and bidiv. As the newest deb packages are based on a different > library than mine, and I could not find an older one, I downloaded > the tar bals and went through the usual ./configure, make, install > for libdibi (it installs by default in /usr/local/lib) then I added > /usr/local/lib to /etc/ld.so.conf and then I compiled bidiv, which > landed in /usr/local/bin. > Now, while at home bidiv worked without any problem, at work the > linker was unable to find libbidi.so. The only way to convince bidiv > to work was by creating a symbolic link from > /usr/local/lib/libbidi.so.0.0 to /usr/lib/libbidi.so where bidiv > looks for the library.
You forgot to run ldconfig (as root) after editing ld.so.conf - it would have made that link for you... Gilad -- Gilad Ben-Yossef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://benyossef.com ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
