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Subject: Re: ldconfig vs /usr/local/lib/mysql
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On Apr 25, 2008, at 11:03 AM, Robin Becker wrote:
> One of our FreeBSD 6 servers got rebooted and when it came back we  
> found that /usr/local/lib/mysql was not amongst the directories on  
> the standard ldconfig paths.
>
> Can someone gently explain how this is supposed to work.

Your mysql binary ought to have an explicit path reference, which you  
can check via ldd:

% ldd /usr/local/bin/mysql
/usr/local/bin/mysql:
	libreadline.so.5 => /lib/libreadline.so.5 (0x28084000)
	libncurses.so.5 => /lib/libncurses.so.5 (0x280b1000)
	libmysqlclient.so.14 => /usr/local/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient.so.14  
(0x280f2000)
[ ... ]

What's the problem you were trying to solve?

-- 
-Chuck