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Re: make install should do ldconfig?
From: |
BORBELY Zoltan |
Subject: |
Re: make install should do ldconfig? |
Date: |
Mon, 14 Jul 2003 11:27:40 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.4.1i |
Hi,
On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 12:08:52PM +0300, Dimitris Stasinopoulos wrote:
> On Monday 14 July 2003 02:06, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > I installed latest gnokii from cvs with make install, but gnokii
> > refused to run. ldconfig was needed. Perhaps it should be done from
> > make install?
> > Pavel
>
> Hi Pavel, on make install, the user is notified of this requirement
> (running ldconfig), but it is left to the users discretion to do it.
> Perhaps that is a better policy than to do it, whether the user likes it
> or not.
ldconfig presence is highly system dependent. Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD
have ldconfig but it's missing on Solaris.
Bye,
Bozo