Re: how to install library in a specific directory?

[John Calcote]

On 7/22/2009 9:15 PM, A117 wrote:
> Thank you. I've decided to put the library in /usr/local/lib, while its header 
> files in /usr/local/include/ezproject.
> It's strange though /usr/local/lib is in /etc/ld.so.conf (actually in another 
> file it includes), and I can build other programs acting much as mine, I have 
> difficulty with mine only. I run ldconfig manually and then it works. Now I'm 
> releasing my software.
>    

ldconfig updates the library cache. the /etc/ld.so.conf file is the file 
used by ldconfig to determine which directories to scan for libraries. 
When you add a new library to one of the directories in /etc/ld.so.conf, 
then you need to run ldconfig to ensure that the cache is aware of that 
new library.

John