Re: Obsolete software in /usr/local
On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 05:30:58PM +0000, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> I run several "ancient" programs, by housing them in /usr/local/bin, with
> the libraries they need (which are no longer provided in Debian) situated
> in /usr/local/lib. In previous systems, right up to potato, this worked
> fine.
>
> I just finished building a woody system, so I can get my packages up to
> date, and all these programs stopped working because the needed library
> was not found. If I copy the /usr/local/lib contents to /lib everything
> works fine, suggesting that ldconfig no longer traverses /usr/local/lib
> for the libraries found there. Is this what is going on ... why ... and
> what do I do to correct the problem?
It would seem to come down to this entry in /usr/share/doc/ldso/README.gz
Changes in version 1.9.2:
Removed /usr/local/lib from the default /etc/ld.so.conf
for Debian (Bug#8181).
Changed ldconfig to be 64-bit clean (H.J. Lu).
You simply need to add /usr/local/lib to /etc/ld.so.conf and run
ldconfig and all will be back to the way it was before.
Ben
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