Installation Problems

[Tim Boring]

Oh, okay!  That makes sense.  So I can just type 'ldconfig' from the 
command line and it'll go through those directories and rebuild the 
cache?  This could actually clear up some other issues I've been having, 
too. 

Many thanks,
Tim

James LewisMoss wrote:

>>>>>> On Fri, 09 Mar 2001 13:13:53 -0500, Tim Boring <tboring@insight.rr.com> said:
>>>>> 
> 
>  Tim> No, I didn't run ldconfig.  I'm relatively new to Linux, so this
>  Tim> may seem like a dumb question, but what does ldconfig do and how
>  Tim> do I run it?  Just type 'ldconfig' at the command line in the
>  Tim> directory where I compiled guile?
> 
> The dynamic linker (the program that loads libraries for programs when
> they start running) uses a database in /etc called ld.so.cache.
> ldconfig builds that cache.  If a library isn't found in the cache it
> can't be loaded, so everytime you put a new lib in one of the library
> directories (/lib, /usr/lib, /usr/X11R6/lib, /usr/local/lib) that
> cache must be rebuilt.
> 
>  Tim> As for g-wrap, does it have to be exactly 0.9.12?  I
>  Tim> compiled/installed from 1.1.9. Should I try going back to
>  Tim> 0.9.12?
> 
> I missed the initial, but 0.9.12 is needed for gnucash 1.4.x and 1.1.x
> won't work with a 1.4 version of gnucash.  the 1.5.x beta/alpha
> versions of gnucash need a 1.1.x version of g-wrap.
> 
> Jim
>