Re: make install should do ldconfig?

[BORBELY Zoltan]

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