Re: Obsolete software in /usr/local

2001-01-07 Thread Greg Stark
Ben Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 03:49:07PM -0500, Greg Stark wrote: > > I've been meaning to bring this up for a while: > > Why on earth was this change ever made? > > I can't speak for whoever made the change, but I suspect that it is > because LD_LIBRARY_PAT

Re: Obsolete software in /usr/local

2001-01-06 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 02:14:42PM +1100, Peter Eckersley wrote: > That doesn't seem like an elegant explanation. Wouldn't it make more > sense to have a script to make sure that a Debian package hasn't got > links to whacky non-standard libraries? > > The current behaviour is rather non-intuitiv

Re: Obsolete software in /usr/local

2001-01-06 Thread Peter Eckersley
On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 08:23:29PM -0400, Ben Armstrong wrote: > On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 03:49:07PM -0500, Greg Stark wrote: > > I've been meaning to bring this up for a while: > > Why on earth was this change ever made? > > I can't speak for whoever made the change, but I suspect that it is > be

Re: Obsolete software in /usr/local

2001-01-06 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 03:49:07PM -0500, Greg Stark wrote: > I've been meaning to bring this up for a while: > Why on earth was this change ever made? I can't speak for whoever made the change, but I suspect that it is because LD_LIBRARY_PATH can be used to support libraries in /usr/local/lib fo

Re: Obsolete software in /usr/local

2001-01-06 Thread Greg Stark
Ben Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 01:31:42PM -0400, Ben Armstrong wrote: > > Changes in version 1.9.2: > > > > Removed /usr/local/lib from the default /etc/ld.so.conf > > for Debian (Bug#8181). > > oops, except that mod is *ancient*. way before

Re: Obsolete software in /usr/local

2001-01-05 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Ben Armstrong wrote: > On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 01:31:42PM -0400, Ben Armstrong wrote: > > Changes in version 1.9.2: > > > > Removed /usr/local/lib from the default /etc/ld.so.conf > > for Debian (Bug#8181). > > oops, except that mod is *ancient*. way before p

Re: Obsolete software in /usr/local

2001-01-05 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 05:30:58PM +, Dale Scheetz wrote: > I just finished building a woody system, so I can get my packages up to > date, and all these programs stopped working because the needed library > was not found. If I copy the /usr/local/lib contents to /lib everything > works fine,

Re: Obsolete software in /usr/local

2001-01-05 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 01:31:42PM -0400, Ben Armstrong wrote: > Changes in version 1.9.2: > > Removed /usr/local/lib from the default /etc/ld.so.conf > for Debian (Bug#8181). oops, except that mod is *ancient*. way before potato. dunno why this would change between potato and w

Re: Obsolete software in /usr/local

2001-01-05 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Dale Scheetz wrote: > I just finished building a woody system, so I can get my packages up to > date, and all these programs stopped working because the needed library > was not found. If I copy the /usr/local/lib contents to /lib everything > works fine, suggesting that ldconfig no long

Re: Obsolete software in /usr/local

2001-01-05 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 05:30:58PM +, Dale Scheetz wrote: > I run several "ancient" programs, by housing them in /usr/local/bin, with > the libraries they need (which are no longer provided in Debian) situated > in /usr/local/lib. In previous systems, right up to potato, this worked > fine. >