Re: [bug-recutils] recutils 1.8 required ldconfig to load librec.so.1

[John Darrington]

On Sat, Jun 08, 2019 at 08:49:01PM -0400, Charles Millar wrote:

     After searching the net I found a post that suggested using ldconfig,
     which i did and recutils now works.
     
     So after all that explanation - did using the Debian packages cause this
     problem? 

Yes, sort of.  Although Debian would probably claim it is not a problem
but a feature.   
     
     if so is there an installation?? fix
     

There are various possible ways to work around it.  One is to put
"/usr/local/lib" in your /etc/ld.so.conf file.   Another is to configure
with --prefix=/usr   Yet another is to set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH prefix.
     
     
     or should the README-dev??  contain a caveat about using the Debian 
packages for gnupg, etc.?

I guess it could.  But it's not really reasonable to expect recutils
to document every quirk of every operating system the user might happen 
to be using.   Instead, one normally assumes that the user is familiar
with their own OS - or at least if not, then the OS supplier will 
support them.


J'
     

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