Re: [Sheflug] Weird world of Netscape 6/jpeg

[Craig Andrews <nospam [at] fishbot.free-online.co.uk>]

I notice you keep putting Id.so.conf (with an 'eye'), not ld.so.conf (with
an 'ell'). they look the same in Xterm, so perhaps that's a problem?

Or am I off on a completely different track somewhere on my own...


Craig Andrews
craig@fishbot.free-online.co.uk

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On Thu, 25 May 2000, Harvey Kelly wrote:

> Dear Stephen,
> 
> On Tue, 23 May 2000, you wrote:
> > 
> > make install may or may not configure the symlinks correctly, but it
> > probably does.
> > 
> > (1) ls -l /usr/lib/libjpeg* should show
> > 
> >     (a) that your _new_ libjpeg is installed there (check the dates,
> >         if you're still not sure do a diff vs. the copy in the build
> >         directory) under its full version number> 
> >     (b) that the various libjpeg.so.6, libjpeg.so.6.2, and maybe
> >         libjpeg.so.6.x are symlinks to it.
> > 
> Well, there are symlinks (dated May 21) libjpeg.so & libjpeg.so.6 linked
> to libjpeg.so.6.0.1, and there's libjpeg.a & libjpeg.so.6.0.1 which have the
> build date (July 23 1999).
> 
> > (2) If not, check for the same things in /usr/local/lib (this is
> >     actually more likely, most things default to install in
> >     /usr/local).
> > 
> Nope, there's not a thing.
> 
> > (3) If your libjpeg (and anything else you've built) is in
> >     /usr/local/lib, check for the presence of /usr/local/lib in
> >     /etc/ld.so.conf.  If not, add it at the top.  (This can have
> >     security implications, but probably not to worry about unless you
> >     otherwise run a really tight ship.)
> Ah, there's some stuff in /usr/local/bin (cjpeg, djpeg, jpegtran,rdjpgcom,
> wrjpgcom - with the "new" date), but how do I get at Id.so.conf?  emacs
> Id.so.conf results in a lovely blank page.
>   
> > (4) Now su to root if you're not already there and do `ldconfig'(or 
> >     `ldconfig -v | less' if you want to see what's happening, mildly
> >     educational -- I strongly recommend doing new admin tasks with
> >     `verbose' flag on unless you're in a real hurry).
> > 
> You're going to love this:  how do you "do" Idconfig (or Idconfig -v | less)? 
> When I type Idconfig I get Command not found.  Is this a SuSE problem?
> 
> > Netscrap should now pick up the new browser (do `ldd `which
> > netscape`', note the _back_quotes around "which netscape", or just run
> > it :)
> > 
> > (5) If you added /usr/local/lib to /etc/ld.so.conf, check out what
> >     other libraries are in /usr/local/lib and watch out for bizarre
> >     behavior related to them; they now shadow libraries with the same
> >     so-name in /lib and /usr/lib, so you can screw things up.
> > 
> > HTH
> 
> Sorry if I'm missing something very obvious, but I guess this isn't too
> difficult to fix(?)
> 
> Thanks again
> 
> Harvey
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