On Sunday 04 March 2007 18:38, Gene Heskett wrote:
On Sunday 04 March 2007, Nigel Henry wrote:
>I have a problem when compiling a library. I am upgrading Aldrin, a
> music app. The latest version needs a library that used to be
> integrated in Aldrin, but now needs to be installed separately. The
> library "libzzub" doesn't seem to be available for FC5, at least not
in
> extras, or freshrpms.
>
>This library is built using scons, but when I su to root to do a "scons
>install" it insists on running ldconfig, which it can't as it's not
>calling /sbin/ldconfig, and lunches out saying there's a problem.
>
>I had a look in /etc/profiles, and I'm sure on an earlier version of FC,
> I added /sbin to the paths, but FC5 seems to be a bit different.
>
>What do I need to do, so that it is not necessary to call ldconfig
>as /sbin/ldconfig?
'su -' maybe?
Thanks Gene. I'd tried that, but then scons install was looking in the /root
directory for the SConstruct file, and it obviously wasn't there. Darned
computers!
Nigel.