Re: how to install library in a specific directory?

[A117]

Why don't I need to run ldconfig manually after installing other official 
softwares, like osip2? I tried "ldconfig -p" and saw the library was aware of, 
i.e., listed, before running "ldconfig". But linkage could not find the library 
then.

And can I ask another question? I want to build some source code files into 
this library and need to distribute some other files, too. But EXTRA_DIST in 
Makefile.am does not work as below,
lib_LTLIBRARIES = libezcommon.la
...
libezcommon_la_SOURCES = ezcommon.cpp tinystr.cpp ...
EXTRA_DIST = tinyxml.txt ezcommon.rc ...

If I write only one file in libezcommon_la_SOURCES, while adding others to 
EXTRA_DIST and others' .o to libezcommon_la_LIBADD, it works. I don't know why.

Thanks for your patience.

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>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