I’m fairly new to Linux and I’m learning with FC3. I’ll research as much as possible before asking questions.
When I first setup FC3, I needed to edit the ld.so.conf file to include /usr/lib and /usr/local/lib. I also added an EXPORT command to /etc/profile for PKG_CONFIG_PATH. Is this normal, and if so, is there a reason these aren’t setup during install?
/usr/lib is included by default by ldconfig and does not need to be included in ld.so.conf (see "man ldconfig"). You do need to add /usr/local/lib if you need it though (or add it in a .conf file in /etc/ld.so.conf.d).
No PKG_CONFIG_PATH is normally needed because packages that support pkgconfig drop a file into /usr/lib/pkgconfig, which pkgconfig picks up automatically.
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Paul.
