Re: why is ldconfig needed after installation

2014-05-26 Thread Peter Johansson
On 05/26/2014 05:07 PM, Peter Johansson wrote: Hm, there is nothing in my 'Makefile.in' that mentions --mode=finish. Is there any reason for that or is it a automake bug? I investigated this a bit further. 'libtool --mode=finish' is indeed called and it calls 'ldconfig -n /usr/local/lib' but tha

Re: why is ldconfig needed after installation

2014-05-26 Thread Peter Johansson
On 05/26/2014 11:07 AM, Russ Allbery wrote: ldconfig has to be run because the dynamic linker maintains a cache of available libraries that has to be updated. libtool does this when run with libtool --mode=finish on the installation directory. I'm not sure if it does this when it thinks the dir