From: Edward S. Marshall <emarshal@logic.net>
  To  : Jon M. Taylor <taylorj@ecs.csus.edu>
  Date: Sat, 6 Feb 1999 11:24:16 -0600 (CST)

Re: I have seen the stars... at Creative!

On Sat, 6 Feb 1999, Jon M. Taylor wrote:
> * LibGGI installs its various shared library binaries into /usr/local/lib,
> but until I added /usr/local/lib to /etc/ld.so.conf I couldn't run
> anything.  KDE added its shared library paths to /etc/ld.so.conf when it
> was installed, perhaps we should do the same?  Obviously there are some
> cross-platform issues involved here, but at least on Linux this should be
> done. 

/etc/ld.so.conf doesn't exist on all platforms; on some, the only answer
is to modify LD_LIBRARY_PATH. I'd recommend simply warning the user that
they may need to modify their LD_LIBRARY_PATH, or /etc/ld.so.conf, as
appropriate. I though libtool already spoke up about that though?

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Edward S. Marshall <emarshal@logic.net>       [ What goes up, must come down. ]
http://www.logic.net/~emarshal/               [ Ask any system administrator. ]

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