installing libs from source

[Todd Zullinger]

Brandon Rambo wrote:
> how do you use ldconfig?

man ldconfig, of course. :)

The main thing to be aware of if you've compiled a library from source
and installed it to /usr/local/lib is that you'll need to add that
path to the list that ldconfig checks (by default /lib and /usr/lib).

Basically, this means adding /usr/local/lib to /etc/ld.so.conf
(creating it if necessary).  Alternatively, you can create the file in
/etc/ld.so.conf.d, where any file ending in .conf is read.  So you
could put a local.conf there that contained /usr/local/lib.

$ echo /usr/local/lib > /etc/ld.so.conf.d/local.conf

See the man page for more details.

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