Re: ldconfig vs f8 ????

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On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 3:14 PM, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wednesday 30 April 2008, Todd Zullinger wrote:
>  >Gene Heskett wrote:
>  >> Greetings;
>  >>
>  >> Can anyone explain the reason why F8, by default, does not include
>  >> /usr/local/lib in its working pathlist?
>  >
>  >Because nothing in Fedora uses /usr/local/lib.
>  >
>  >> I just had to add another file naming it in /etc/ld.so.conf.d
>  >
>  >Your fingers must be sore after all that typing. ;-)
>  >
>  >> I don't recall ever having to do that in any previous incarnations
>  >> of fedora, it was always there.
>  >
>  >I don't recall it being there in any Fedora release.  It's not in F7
>  >that I can see.  What makes you say it is?  What file(s) is it
>  >included in?
>
>  I was trying to build pfmon for the 2.6.25 kernel, and by default, it put all
>  the libraries in /usr/local exactly as any good tarball install should do.
>  But when I built the kernel and rebooted to it and then tried to build the
>  utility itself, its Makefile included the correct links to allow it to build.
>  But the installed build could not then find its libraries because the path to
>  them was not in the working pathlist for ldconfig.  That seems almost like an
>  immature attempt at vendor lock in to me and leaves a bad taste.
>
>  I added it, but now I seem to be lost in a shimmering cloud of acronyms as it
>  now says the PMU in my machine is not supported.  No mention of it in any of
>  the Makefiles for pfmon.  I'm assuming its a memory manager.  And as this
>  board has run relatively well for about 4 years now, I have to assume that
>  the AMD XP-2800 & NForce2 chipset it uses does have such a beastie.
>
>  So what exactly is a PMU?
>
>

Google says its either the Progressive Muslim Union or Power
Management Unit.....i don't know which way to go on this one....


Max

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