Can't find library.

[Jerome Miecznikowski]

On 20-Aug-04, at 10:23 AM, Peter L. Peres wrote:

> Minimum permissions for library are r not rx. Did you run ldconfig 
> after make install ? parted should only be used by root anyway, the 
> binary and library permissions may reflect this.

Whoops, my mistake about the permission ... sorry Taavi.

> ldd `which parted`
>
> and see that the library is where ldd says it's looking for it. Did 
> you install it by hand or did you use the original install script ?

Ok, for the checklist:  installed with 'make install', checked 
permissions on the lib, ran ldconfig (as root), ran parted as root, ldd 
still reports:
libparted-1.6.12 => not found

Hm, two things I should add are that there are no spurious environment 
variables that I'm setting and that libparted is the only lib in 
/usr/local/lib (/etc/ld.so.conf does contain /usr/local/lib)  A quick 
peek with objdump also shows that no path is specified for the lib in 
parted.

It seemed the problem is likely that the dynamic linker just isn't 
looking at /usr/local/lib  ... so I ran strace on konsole to watch 
something that works with a non-standard lib location (/opt tree) ... 
and found that on my system, for konsole the linker is using the 
ld.so.preload but not ld.so.cache.  And it works.  But if I run strace 
on parted, it uses the ld.so.cache, and doesn't search on *any* 
location from /etc/ld.so.conf  ... At this point I regenerated the 
ld.so.cache file again, but no change.

Again, any thoughts?

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