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From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
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Subject: Re: ldconfig "skipping" libraries (6.1-R)
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On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 07:18:18PM +0000, Edward B. DREGER wrote:
> Greetings all,
>=20
>=20
> I'd been going nuts trying to determine why I couldn't link against=20
> "libdb-4.4.so" and a few other libraries.  The ones in question didn't=20
> show up via
>=20
> 	ldconfig -r
>=20
> although their respective directories _were_ found.  (Yes, I even ran=20
> "ldconfig -R" for good measure.)  ldconfig seems to "skip" libraries not=
=20
> of the form
>=20
> 	m/.+\.so\.[0-9]+/
>=20
> i.e.,
>=20
> 	libfoo.so.1
>=20
> is found, but
>=20
> 	libbar.so
> 	libsnuzzlycat.so.5.5
>=20
> are not.
>=20
> Bug or feature?

Feature.

> Is this what I get for straying from ports/packages?=20
> ;-)

Probably.

Kris

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