[Ecls-list] About the need for ldconfig/ld.so.conf

[Robert Lehr]

On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 04:38:59PM +0100, Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll wrote:
> On Friday 31 October 2003 16:21, Robert Lehr wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 09:17:37AM +0100, Julian St. wrote:
> > > You probably have to add /usr/local/lib/ecl to your shared library
> > > search path, so the runtime linker can find libecl.so. On FreeBSD this
> > > works with 'ldconfig -m /usr/local/lib/ecl'. There should perhaps be a
> > > script that does this after OS startup.
> >
> > After reading your email, I realized that I had forgotten to add
> > /usr/lib/ecl to my /etc/ld.so.conf.  I was too tired to think this even
> > with ldconfig screaming at me every time I tested the RPM.
> 
> There is no need to either update ld.so.conf or use ldconfig when installing 
> ECL. If everything went ok, the executable is configured to find the library 
> at ${prefix}/lib/ecl/, and this information is hardcoded via the flag --rpath 
> which is passed to the linker. At least it should be this way, and it works 
> on all systems I have tried it. Just do the following experiment (replace 
> /home/juanjo/bin/ecl with your executable file):
> 	$ ldd /home/juanjo/bin/ecl
>         libecl.so =>     /home/juanjo/lib/ecl//libecl.so
>         libdl.so.1 =>    /usr/lib/libdl.so.1
>         libm.so.1 =>     /usr/lib/libm.so.1
>         libc.so.1 =>     /usr/lib/libc.so.1
>         /usr/platform/SUNW,UltraSPARC-IIi-Engine/lib/libc_psr.so.1

That is true for /usr/bin/ecl.  But not for my application that is
linked to libecl.so

    bozzio$ ldd <my-binary-program-built-using-usr-bin-ecl-config>
            libecl.so => not found
            libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x40024000)
            libm.so.6 => /lib/i686/libm.so.6 (0x40027000)
            libc.so.6 => /lib/i686/libc.so.6 (0x42000000)
            /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)

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Robert Lehr
bozzio at the-lehrs.com