There's the problem! The libraries are in fact in ${PREFIX}/lib/kde3, but I had set USE_LDCONFIG to ${PREFIX}/lib. That's why it was acting funny. Thanks for your help.
- Daniel W. Steinbrook On 4/6/07, Michael Nottebrock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Daniel W. Steinbrook wrote: > > I just finished a simple port (my first) of one of my favorite little KDE > > applications, the Keep backup tool > > (http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=32984), and I hope to submit > > it to the ports collection soon. It builds/installs/packages > > itself/deinstalls nicely now, but I have one porting-noobish-type > > question: what is the proper use of ldconfig in the Makefile? Keep does > > install some files into ${PREFIX}/lib, including a KDE service daemon, but > > the port runs without the USE_LDCONFIG line. > > > > Is this a case of "if it ain't broke, don't fix it"? > > If you're asking whether you should set USE_LDCONFIG anyway, then the > answer is yes. > > I suspect that those files the application installs might actually belong > in ${PREFIX}/lib/kde3 rather than ${PREFIX}/lib ... if that is the case > though, it's an application bug that can be sorted out by the developers > of the application later and shouldn't keep you from submitting the port. > > Cheers, > -- > ,_, | Michael Nottebrock | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > (/^ ^\) | FreeBSD - The Power to Serve | http://www.freebsd.org > \u/ | K Desktop Environment on FreeBSD | http://freebsd.kde.org > > _______________________________________________ kde-freebsd mailing list kde-freebsd@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-freebsd