Bug#72140: Setting up libraries too slow
On Sat, Sep 23, 2000 at 01:54:17PM -0400, nveber@primusolutions.net wrote:
> root@pyre[~]# /usr/bin/gkrellm
> /usr/bin/gkrellm: error in loading shared libraries: libXi.so.6: cannot open
> shared object file: No such file or directory
Right, forgot about this. The dynamic linker does not actually use
/etc/ld.so.conf but only /etc/ld.so.cache. So if you don't have the lib
in the system path it may well be not found.
> I think setting one envoromnment variable is slightly faster than running
> ldconfig :)
Yep, but this is more error prone. You can easily forget to do that since
you need to do it in all postinst which depend on that library...
Contrary ldconfig needs to be run in the lib installation script.
> PS. Anyone know what other distro's (redhat?) do? Installing rpm's seems
> faster than .deb's, but I dont know if that has anything to do with this
> issue.
I think they don't call ldconfig.
Summary: Perhaps we should
a) remove that ldconfig call from the library postinsts
b) make dpkg call ldconfig if any of /usr/lib, /lib or the dirs in
/etc/ld.so.conf has been touched since starting dpkg
c) demand that postinst which call programs with libs outside
/lib and /usr/lib sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH
Comments?
Torsten
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