Re: Frontpage and Debian (SOLVED!)

[Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net>]

On Wed, 9 Apr 1997, Adam Shand wrote:

> >One way to deal with this would be to downgrade to the old library, then
> >copy the installed libraries, by hand, into /usr/local/lib. You can then
> >upgrade back to the current libraries and everything should work without
> >the need for the LD_PRELOAD.
> 
> I'm very new to this but couldn't you end up with nasty things happening if
> you did this and upgraded to the new version of libg++?  Cause if you
> compile things and it uses the new header files but the /usr/local/lib is
> first in the search path...?

You are confusing ld.so with gcc. The compiler/linker doesn't search
/usr/local, you would need to direct it to look there. What you need to
put into /usr/local/lib is the shared libraries used by ld.so during
program loading. This path is on the list of paths checked by ld.so and
will result in the correct library being "available" to the program that
needs it.

Luck,

Dwarf
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