Obsolete software in /usr/local

[Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net>]

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?

Thanks,

Dwarf
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