Re: ldconfig

Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler (ujr@physik.phy.tu-dresden.de)
Wed, 18 Dec 1996 10:09:07 +0100 (MET)


On Wed, 18 Dec 1996, Jon Lewis wrote:

>
> On Tue, 17 Dec 1996, Eric Horst wrote:
>
> > i believe that it wants the 'e' on the end removed. i'm betting that it
> > is inconsistent in that it doesn't follow the standard lib*.so.#.#.# form.
> > >
>
> > > /sbin/ldconfig: warning: /usr/lib/libmenu.so.1.9.9e has inconsistent
> > > soname (libmenu.so.3.0), skipping
>
> No...the problem seems to be that we're calling the library a totally
> different version from what it calls itself. Strings on the lib shows
> that it wants to be libmenu.so.3.0 as ldconfig complains. I tried
> removing the e anyway, and it still bitched about the inconsistant soname.
> The ELF-howto mentions this and says to ignore the error. It seems hard
> to do.

Just rename it to the name it wants to have
(e.g. mv /usr/lib/libmenu.so.1.9.9e /usr/lib/libmenu.so.3.0)
Works pretty well for me.

Ulf

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