On 7/22/2009 9:15 PM, A117 wrote:
Thank you. I've decided to put the library in /usr/local/lib, while its header files in /usr/local/include/ezproject. It's strange though /usr/local/lib is in /etc/ld.so.conf (actually in another file it includes), and I can build other programs acting much as mine, I have difficulty with mine only. I run ldconfig manually and then it works. Now I'm releasing my software.
ldconfig updates the library cache. the /etc/ld.so.conf file is the file used by ldconfig to determine which directories to scan for libraries. When you add a new library to one of the directories in /etc/ld.so.conf, then you need to run ldconfig to ensure that the cache is aware of that new library.
John
