I would closely look at that entry in ld.so.conf. There may be leading or
trailing spaces or some minor mispelling that's somehow throwing it off.
Once I added the path to ld.so.conf I no longer had to specify the -L path,
so to my mind there must be something wrong with the line in the conf file.
Tim
----- Original Message -----
From: "isaac flemmin" <isaac@knox.net>
To: <pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 1:17 PM
Subject: Linker Problems
> Hello,
>
> This is only a small annoyance but I figured I would ask to see if
> anyone out there has any clues on how to fix it.
>
> I am using Linux Red Hat 7.1 with kernel 2.4.9-31. I have glibc
> 2.2.4-24, ld 2.10.91, gcc 2.96, and Postgres 7.2.
>
> My problem is when I am compiling programs I have written using lpq I
> have to give my compiler -L/<dir to libpq> even though it is in my
> ld.so.conf file and I have run ldconfig. I even checked to make sure
> that ldconfig was seeing those libraries by running ldconfig -p to print
> out the cache and see if the libraries were listed there and they were.
> I am not sure why ld is not seeing the libraries unless I specifically
> tell it to search the path where the libraries are, and it is not that
> hard to type in -L/<some dir> but it is slightly annoying that it does
> not work correctly.
>
> So if there is anyone out there who may have some clues about which
> direction to start looking for the solution in, it would be greatly
> appreciated.
>
> Thanks
> Isaac
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> apologies for causing extra mail.
>
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