Re: Problems with ldconfig

[Ignatios Souvatzis <is%beverly.kleinbus.org@localhost>]

On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 09:42:49AM +0100, Stanislaw Szczygiel wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> 
> I made links to libpng.so.1.2 - all others (to libpng.so, libpng.so.1 etc) I 
> found
> in directory - so it must be work of some package. 
> 
> Generally coz I hade mess in long used 1.42, few days ago I installed
> from the beggining 1.4.3 - NetBSD, and next packages. Also mosaic,
> which needs some version of library. I made link to newer library, made 
> ldconfig - and everything was ok. After few days appeared 1.5 - and
> because of all changes, I decided to install it also from beggining. I 
> downloaded proper newer packages, and started installation. After all
> works I made ldconfig. But when I started mosaic again - the message 
> apeeared about lack of library (and simmilar to few other applications). 
> Ive checked - they were in directories (and then I found this situation
> with links). But in 1.4.3 ldconfig had no problems... After all checks I 
> found, that problem is in "invisibility" for ldconfig some libraries - and
> all invisible libs has links.
> 
> I had no time to check libs without links - maybe during weekend, Im
> very busy at work now. But maybe the problem lays in some envirnment
> variables or simmilar... Because the rule is rather visible.

I suggest you ask on one of the netbsd-users or tech-toolchain mailing lists.

I have no idea what might be causing this.

        -is