the problem with Linux?

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 08:06:38PM -0400, Moniz Family wrote:
> I'm just going through something similar. I wanted to install 
> "listener", which requires the libsndfile libraries, which I installed 
> (compiled) in /usr/local/lib. Then I compiled listener from 
> /usr/local/listener-0.4 directory. When I run listener, it can't find a 
> library that was installed from the libsndfile libraries. The library 
> exists and I tried locating it in several places, but it always says it 
> doesn't exist. I have run into this various times doing other compiles 
> and it definitely is a weakness of linux for a regular user. As long as 
> I can rpm, I'm OK, but tar balls are a pain. And not every program is 
> packaged.

Make sure /usr/local/lib is listed in /etc/ld.so.conf, then run
ldconfig, and your lib should be possible to find.

Lennart Sorensen
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