Bug 110419

Summary:	/usr/lib/sane/ inappropriately added to /etc/ld.so.conf
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Nick Lamb <njl>
Component:	sane-backends	Assignee:	Tim Waugh <twaugh>
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Fixed In Version:	1.0.12-6	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Description Nick Lamb 2003-11-19 13:59:12 UTC

On a fresh install of Fedora Core, the file /etc/ld.so.conf lists
/usr/lib/sane
as one of the search directories for shared libraries

This is wrong, the /usr/lib/sane directory contains only SANE
backends, not ordinary libraries. SANE's dll backend is capable of
determining for itself the location of these shared objects, which
could be thought of in this context as "plug-ins" akin to the XMMS
plug-ins, and many others which of course are not listed in
/etc/ld.so.conf

If this package (sane-backends) changes /etc/ld.so.conf then it should
be patched not to do so. If instead the change is a patch in Fedora's
glibc (the package which owns /etc/ld.so.conf itself) then please
re-assign this bug to the appropriate maintainer.

Comment 1 Tim Waugh 2003-11-19 14:02:48 UTC

It is added (by the sane-backends package) in order for the dlopen to
work.  The files that are dlopen'd are the *.so.1 symlinks, which are
put in place by ldconfig.

Comment 2 Nick Lamb 2003-11-19 17:52:27 UTC

Surely the correct incantation in that case is
ldconfig -n /usr/lib/sane
... rather than altering the system library config?

Comment 3 Tim Waugh 2003-11-20 12:39:27 UTC

Hmm, good point.  Try 1.0.12-6.