On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 03:36:14PM -0500, Randy McMurchy wrote: > > > * Poppler instructions say "No specific configuration is required." - > > shouldn't that be the standard library configuration paragraph - "As > > with most libraries, no configuration is needed except to add PREFIX/lib > > to ld.so.conf..." > > I disagree. I wrote the poppler instructions and I've always > *loathed* that standard library paragraph. I would never include > it in a page I write. That paragraph is only used on a handful > of packages. Many, many, many more packages install libraries > (with no specific configuration) and don't use the paragraph. > Besides, updating ld.so.conf and running ldconfig is mentioned > in the standard instructions at the beginning of the book. It > is redundant to say it again. > > Next update to poppler, I'll remove the configuration information > section and just leave the config file section. :-)
Mark had put that paragragh with every package when BLFS began. I started removing it on packages that obviously ran ldconfig. It did become slightly repetitive after a while, but we still got support questions where it was obvious that it was not done. Larry -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
