On  5 Nov, Bill Studenmund wrote:
>> I wanted LD_LIBRARY_PATH set since the linker ld will search it for
>> libraries.  It's the most painless way to add /usr/pkg/lib to the
>> default library search list so that GNU configure will find it for all
>> of those GNU packages in the /usr/pkgsrc tree.
> 
> ldconfig -m /usr/pkg/lib in rc.local shouldn't be too painful, should it?
> 
> The advantage of ldconfig'ing the change is you're saying that the
> system administrator thinks it's a good thing, not just a user.

Wait...I'm confused.  I thought that ldconfig sets up the ld.so.hints
cache, but the cache is consulted ONLY at runtime.  What I'm want is
for those libraries to be found at compile-time, and I thought the only
way to do that was to add -Llibdir -llib, or to add libdir to
LD_LIBRARY_PATH.  All those GNU configure scripts make little programs
and try to link with, oh say -lncurses, to test if ncurses exists. 
>From my experiences, having libncurses in my ld.so.hints file doesn't
mean that ld will find it.

	Am I wrong on this?
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   Johnny C. Lam
   Department of Statistics			lamj@stat.cmu.edu
   Carnegie Mellon University			http://www.stat.cmu.edu/~lamj/

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