Problems with popt - is history

Paul Lussier pll@mclinux.com
Wed, 20 Jun 2001 16:05:03 -0400


In a message dated: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 16:40:54 -0300
Bruno Trevisan said:

>What happened was that I had a _very_ old version of popt instaled at
>/usr/lib and all the new ones I tried were being instaled in
>/usr/local/lib but config assumed that he one in /usr/lib was to be used,
>so it failed all the time. Removing the old libraries solved the
>problem.

You could bave also over-ridden that by moving the /usr/local/lib 
line in /etc/ld.so.conf above the /usr/lib one and re-run ldconfig -a.

I don't know if that's necessarilly desirable, but it works :)
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