[ale] Brain fart

[kachline at brightstar.gt.ed.net (Mike Kachline)]

On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Glenn C. Lasher Jr. wrote:

> 
> Okay, time for a really dumb question, to which I used to know the answer,
> but have completely forgotten.
> 
> I just last night installed Red Hat 7.1b (Fisher) and I have some programs
> that are looking for their libraries in odd places, and I have modified

> /etc/ld.so.conf to include these odd places, but, so help me, I can't get
> the changes to take.  I even tried (gasp!) rebooting!  Would someone
> kindly jog this poor soul's brain as to how to get ld.so.conf re-read?
<snip>

	Glenn,

	I agree that rebooting should have re-loaded your
libraries. Chances are pretty good that you need to switch the *order*
in which you placed your libraries in /etc/ld.so.conf. Ie, if two copies
of the same library are specified in your library paths, I believe that
ld uses the last one that it loads (that or the first, can't
remember). Try swapping the order in which you added your new library
path.

					- Mike
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