Re: ldconfig screws up my installation

From: Oliver Rauch (oliver.rauch@Wolfsburg.DE)
Date: Mon Mar 20 2000 - 12:35:52 PST

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    Ralph Angenendt wrote:

    > On Mit, Mär 15, 2000 at 12:56:34 +0100, Oliver Rauch wrote:
    > > Ralph Angenendt wrote:
    > >
    > > > > Normally this link should point to sane/libsane-dll....
    > > > >
    > > > > Did you try sane-1.0.1 or sane-1.0.2?
    > > > > If you tried sane-1.0.2 remove sane-1.0.1 before ...
    > > >
    > > > This happens with sane-1.0.2 as I recognized yesterday. Yes,
    > > > sane-1.0.1 has been uninstalled beforehand. I couldn't get my Microtek
    > > > E6 to work.
    > > >
    > >
    > > this is strange, it works fine for me.
    > > Did you remove the subdirectory "sane" in /usr/(local)/lib
    > > before you installed sane-1.0.2?
    >
    > Okay, took me some days to have some time for trying it out. I removed
    > everything related to sane from my system (in /usr/local/lib/,
    > ../etc/, ../bin etc.). I unpacked sane-1.0.2, did a ( ./configure ;
    > make ; su -c "make install ) and edited /usr/local/etc/dll.conf, so
    > that it just contains "microtek".
    >
    > | shutdown:/usr/local/lib/sane# ls -l libsane.so.1
    > | lrwxrwxrwx 1 root staff 21 Mar 18 23:34 libsane.so.1 -> libsane-umax.so.1.0.2
    > | shutdown:/usr/local/lib/sane# rm libsane.so.1
    > | shutdown:/usr/local/lib/sane# ln -s libsane-dll.so.1 libsane.so.1
    > | shutdown:/usr/local/lib/sane# ls -l libsane.so.1
    > | lrwxrwxrwx 1 root staff 16 Mar 18 23:41 libsane.so.1 -> libsane-dll.so.1
    > | shutdown:/usr/local/lib/sane# /sbin/ldconfig
    > | shutdown:/usr/local/lib/sane# ls -l libsane.so.1
    > | lrwxrwxrwx 1 root staff 21 Mar 18 23:42 libsane.so.1 -> libsane-umax.so.1.0.2
    > | shutdown:/usr/local/lib/sane#
    >
    > Huh?
    >
    > > I can not imagine why ldconfig should set a link?!
    >
    > Me neither - but it does.
    >
    > > What is your system?
    >
    > Debian 2.1 Slink on i386.
    >
    >

    I Ralph,

    I see, the link is in the subdir "sane" and not in /usr/local/lib.
    in fact this is the same on my system. But that should not make any problems.
    If it does make problems, remove the subdir "sane" from /etc/ld.so.conf, it is not needed for sane-1.0.2

    Bye
    Oliver 

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