[ale] library mystery

[james at sumners.ath.cx]

`echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH`?

On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 07:30:16PM -0500, Jim Philips wrote:
> I installed a new version of parted and when I go to run it, I get:
> 
> [root at localhost parted-1.6.8]# /usr/local/sbin/parted
> /usr/local/sbin/parted: error while loading shared libraries: libparted-1.6.0: 
> cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
> 
> So, if I look for the related libraries in /usr/local/lib, I get:
> 
> lrwxr-xr-x    1 root     root           19 Mar 29 19:22 libparted -> 
> libparted-1.6.0.0.8
> lrwxr-xr-x    1 root     root           19 Mar 29 19:22 libparted-1.6.0 -> 
> libparted-1.6.0.0.8
> - -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       309664 Mar 29 19:21 libparted-1.6.0.0.8
> - -rw-r--r--    1 root     root       436272 Mar 29 19:21 libparted.a
> - -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          719 Mar 29 19:21 libparted.la
> 
> Then, I run ldconfig. But if I go through the entire output of ldconfig, I 
> don't see any of the libraries listed above. And , yes, /usr/local/lib is 
> definitely in /etc/ld.so.conf. There is something about these libraries that 
> makes ldconfig refuse to read them. I have never encountered anything like 
> this before.

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