Re: documentation of libraries
On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 03:56:17PM +0200, Rohan Nicholls wrote:
> But then there are the libraries. If I am running a program from the
> local section of usr will it know to look in /usr/lib/ for shared
> libraries or will it only look relative to it (../lib/)?
See the ld.so(8) man page. The linker looks in /etc/ld.so.cache (which
is built from the directories listed in /etc/ld.so.conf by ldconfig),
then /usr/lib, then /lib.
> I am thrilled to be using debian, but am finding that it is difficult
> to track where things are supposed to go, and where they are kept so I
> can direct an application if it complains.
The place to start is the debian-policy package, which also contains a
copy of the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard.
Cheers,
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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