Re: gEDA-user: 20050329 install problem

[Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 03 April 2005 18:48, Marvin Dickens wrote:
>On Sunday 03 April 2005 18:15, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> >The way it's supposed to work is that the list of directories on
>> > a system that are to be searched are supposed to be stored in
>> > the file /etc/ld.so.conf.  A lot of Red Hat derived
>> > distributions  do not include /usr/local/lib in the file
>> > /etc/ld.so.conf. Is this a bug or intentional? Regardless, it's
>> > broken. You can "fix" this by adding /usr/local/lib to
>> > /etc/ld.so.conf.
>>
>> Which I did, years ago.  But, I've been told that /lib, /usr/lib,
>> and /usr/local/lib are builtin defaults.  But, I've not seen any
>> evidence that the search is truely exhaustive in looking at the
>> ld.so.cache here.
>
>Neither have I. Perhaps the solution to this conundrum is something
>along the line of a program that is independent of distributions
>and/or applications. It's purpose would be to *thoroughly* search
>the *entire* system and create a database of what is installed and
>where it is residing on the system. Then ./configure would read
>the database and know what you have and what you don't have.
>
Thats called 'updatedb' on *most* distros.

>Currently, regardless of what anybody says, the distro houses
>tweak the system to be able to call it "Their version of Linux" and
> pretty much hoark some obscure piece of code residing on the system
> that invariably affects dependencies for some programs (I suppose I
> should be saying the ability to properly determine
> dependencies...). I don't think this is ever going to stop.

Only by the most egregarious violators paying the price as they fold.

>If the program that determined dependencies was not part of the
> distribution and further, the methodology used to determine
> dependencies was distro independent, distributors couldn't/wouldn't
> have the opportunity to screw it up.

Yup, but that would take away what *they* perceive as their 
competitive edge.  Which means in simple terms, it ain't gonna 
happen.

>Regards
>
>Marvin

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