Re: [Lzip-bug] "ldconfig -n" doesn't work on some OS (lzlib)

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Hello Juan.

Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado wrote:
> Some versions of ldconfig doesn't support the switch "-n". Look:
> http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ldconfig&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=OpenBSD+5.3&arch=i386&format=html 
>
> The file Makefile.in of lzlib uses this option:
>
> if [ $${run_ldconfig} = yes ] && [ -x "$(LDCONFIG)" ] ; then 
> "$(LDCONFIG)" -n "$(DESTDIR)$(libdir)" ; fi ;

It seems there are at least three flavors of ldconfig. One accepts '-n', 
another one seems to need '-m'[1], and a third seems to work without 
options.

[1] https://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=1456

I'm going to arrange the makefile to ignore errors from ldconfig, as 
advised in the manual of GNU Make[2]. Do you propose some other fix?

[2]http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Utilities-in-Makefiles.html


Best regards,
Antonio.