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From: Spam Me Here <bearmaps@berkeleycs.ml.org>
To: Karl Pielorz <kpielorz@tdx.co.uk>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Seeing new libs in /usr/local/lib? (ldconfig?)
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Their are two things you can do, first for ldconfig, to get it to scan
/usr/local/lib, you would type

	ldconfig /usr/local/lib

to get your program to find libraries in /usr/local/lib, you should
set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to /usr/local/lib

On Mon, Mar 29, 1999 at 01:21:24AM +0100, Karl Pielorz wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Does anyone know how I can get the system to see new libraries I have in
> /usr/local/lib? - I've installed a number of ports - and now when I go to
> compile up software it fails to find things like the ttf (freetype) library,
> but will find others (like the gd library)... Yet in /usr/local/lib I have
> listed:
> 
> libttf.a
> libgd.a
> 
> I've looked at the man page for ldconfig, and tried running:
> 
> ldconfig -aout -v -R
> ldconfig -elf -v -R
> 
> In a vain attempt to get it to re-scan the directory, but it doesn't seem to
> work... Can anyone offer any more info / suggestions? I've checked things
> through and it's definitely failing at the linking stage (i.e. it can find all
> the headers etc. it wants)
> 
> I'm using FreeBSD 3.1 with this (i.e. ELF & AOUT libraries)
> 
> -Kp
> 
> 
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