Re: Using shared library in gCvs

[Tyler]

On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 11:23:48AM -0400, cvsnewbie wrote:
> >>I had compiled my gCvs and tcl using sources from sourceforge. When I 
> >>ran it, I got the shared library libtcl8.4.so file not found error. I 
> >>did have the so file in the /usr/local/lib directory. Is there an 
> >>environmental variable like LIB (under RedHat Linux) needed to be 
> >>defined?
> >>
> >>TIA.
> >>
> >>P.S. I looked at the gCVS's Makefile. In there is a variable called 
> >>libtclxx.so defined, but is not referred. Could I make some change to 
> >>the command file to link the libtclxx.so file directly to the gCvs 
> >>executable?
>
> Nevermind now, I put the so file in the /usr/lib folder. Still, anyway 
> to control the path?

Look at /etc/ld.so.conf and man ldconfig.

tyler