Bug 5343 - ldconfig ignores symlinks
Summary: ldconfig ignores symlinks
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: ldconfig
Version: 6.0
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Cristian Gafton
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Reported: 1999-09-24 03:50 UTC by Chris Seawood
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:37 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 1999-10-05 06:25:07 UTC
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Description Chris Seawood 1999-09-24 03:50:11 UTC 
IBM's DB2 installs it's libraries in /usr/IBMdb2/V6.1/lib
and makes a symlink to /usr/local/lib for libdb2.so.1.
`ldconfig -v` does not show this library and /usr/local/lib
is in /etc/ld.so.conf.  If I copy the library to
/usr/local/lib instead of making the symlink, then it shows
up in `ldconfig -v` listing.  I've noticed the same thing
happening when building Mozilla (which "installs" files as
symlinks by default).
Comment 1 Cristian Gafton 1999-10-05 06:25:59 UTC 
That's how ldconfig is supposed to work.
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