On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 12:51 PM, Rick Stevens <[email protected]
> wrote:

> On 03/15/2012 06:56 PM, Steven Oliver wrote:
>
>> I'm currently pulling the falcon programming language from git and
>> installing it myself instead of pulling it from yum.
>>
>> After pulling it, compiling it, and installing it (sudo make install)
>> it's failing to run telling me:
>>
>> root@odrade:/usr/local/lib $ falcon
>> falcon: error while loading shared libraries: libfalcon_engine.so.1:
>> cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
>>
>> My first thought, as I'm sure most of yours will be was to check
>> ldconfig so i tried:
>>
>> root@odrade:/usr/local/lib $ ldconfig -v | grep falcon
>>
>> And it returns nothing. The falcon libraries appear to be correctly
>> installed:
>>
>> root@odrade:/usr/local/lib $ ls
>> falcon libfalcon_engine.so libfalcon_engine.so.1
>> libfalcon_engine.so.1.22.2
>>
>> And I updated ld.so.conf to include /usr/local/lib before running
>> ldconfig:
>>
>> root@odrade:/etc $ cat ld.so.conf
>> include ld.so.conf.d/*.conf
>> include /usr/local/lib
>>
>
> "include /usr/local/lib" does not put /usr/local/lib in the ldconfig, it's
> telling ldconfig to include any .conf files in /usr/local/lib.
>

I didn't realize that. I guess looking at it again that makes more sense.


>
>
> The correct solution is to create an "/etc/ld.so.conf.d/local.conf" file
> containing the single line:
>
>        /usr/local/lib
>
> Then running "ldconfig -v" or "ldconfig -v | grep falcon" (if you want
> to verify it gets loaded). I didn't name the new file "falcon.conf"
> because this will work for any library installed in /usr/local/lib and
> so it's a bit more generic.
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Thanks for the help Rick and Richard!
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