On Mon, Aug 26, 2019 at 03:12:47PM -0400, Mark H Weaver wrote: > Hi Thomas, > > Thomas Morley <thomasmorle...@gmail.com> writes:
[...] > > But I wonder, shouldn't it work out of the box with 'sudo make install' ? > > Running 'ldconfig' is not always appropriate, and therefore the vast > majority of programs do *not* run 'ldconfig' in "make install" [...] OK, that makes sense. I take my post back :-) It was anyway based on a dim memory. [...] > In theory we could try to make a guess, but there's no reliable way for > the build system to know whether it is appropriate or not, and in > practice it is usually done as a separate step in most modern systems. I think "making a guess" doesn't sound very attractive... Cheers -- t
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