Re: Things Linux Can Do Without

On 2008-05-30, Keith Keller <kkeller-usenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 2008-05-30, jayjwa <jayjwa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

These same people post to mailing
lists wondering why xyz won't build: "But I have libbadidea installed!
It's in /usr/local/badidea, why it says 'not found'?"

I don't have a great solution for this; making symlinks into
/usr/local/lib can help, or options to configure to put libraries in
better spots. Or these people can just read the install docs. ;-)

Gentoo uses a special directory /etc/env.d where you can put your
program information such as LDPATH. The program "env-update" compiles
all this information and produces a sane environment which will
(hopefully) find all those errant libraries.

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Regards,

Gregory.
Gentoo Linux - Penguin Power
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