Re: why is ldconfig needed after installation

[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 directory isn't listed in the system
> library search path, though.
Hm, there is nothing in my 'Makefile.in' that mentions --mode=finish. Is 
there any reason for that or is it a automake bug?


install-libLTLIBRARIES: $(lib_LTLIBRARIES)
    @$(NORMAL_INSTALL)
    @list='$(lib_LTLIBRARIES)'; test -n "$(libdir)" || list=; \
    list2=; for p in $$list; do \
      if test -f $$p; then \
        list2="$$list2 $$p"; \
      else :; fi; \
    done; \
    test -z "$$list2" || { \
      echo " $(MKDIR_P) '$(DESTDIR)$(libdir)'"; \
      $(MKDIR_P) "$(DESTDIR)$(libdir)" || exit 1; \
      echo " $(LIBTOOL) $(AM_LIBTOOLFLAGS) $(LIBTOOLFLAGS) 
--mode=install $(INSTALL) $(INSTALL_STRIP_FLAG) $$list2 
'$(DESTDIR)$(libdir)'"; \
      $(LIBTOOL) $(AM_LIBTOOLFLAGS) $(LIBTOOLFLAGS) --mode=install 
$(INSTALL) $(INSTALL_STRIP_FLAG) $$list2 "$(DESTDIR)$(libdir)"; \
    }


Cheers,

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Peter Johansson