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From: Archie Cobbs <archie@tribe.com>
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> Archie Cobbs stands accused of saying:
> > Actually, you only need to say:
> > 
> >     ldconfig -v /usr/X11R6/lib
> > 
> > to update the ld.so cache (or whatever it is that ldconfig that does).
> 
> This will actually completely stuff your system; you'll either have to
> reboot, or run ldconfig again with all of the appropriate directories
> listed.  In -current, a flag has been added to add a new directory to
> the cache, but this functionality is missing in 2.0.5-RELEASE.

Oops! Sorry about that. I just assumed 'ldconfig' worked the same way
as in Linux (...you know what they say about assumptions).

Thanks,
-Archie