Thank you for all the responses. I have not had a change to try them yet. I did add the entry to ld.so.conf but have not run ldconfig. The location of the file is in /usr/local.... This seems to possible be a bad place to put it because it is not part of my PATH. Would it be advisable to move it or add /usr/local... to the path. If later is better, where would I make the entry so that it gets load every time I boot. (I know where to add it for individual users but not everyone.) Thanks John Miller Information Services - Capital Markets Software Developer Phone: 612-547-7573 Fax: 612-547-7580 Mail Stop: T23 MailTo:john.miller at rbcdain.com -----Original Message----- From: Ben Lutgens [mailto:blutgens at sistina.com] Sent: Monday, February 18, 2002 9:47 AM To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org Subject: Re: [TCLUG] avifile-.0.6 On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 12:10:23AM -0600, Eric Estabrooks wrote: > >I don't think that is completely right. The ld.so.conf is for run time >location of shared libraries not for compile/link time location of >libraries. So you should add them to the ld.so.conf and run ldconfig so >that the system can find the libraries but you'll still need to have the > -I and -L options for compiling. As treebeard would say: "Hroom, hmmmm I was too hasty!" You're right of course, I was thinking of the LD_PRELOAD_PATH kludge. My bad. -- Ben Lutgens http://people.sistina.com/~blutgens/ Sistina Software Inc. pub 1024D/9A0DDC59 2001-12-12 Ben Lutgens <blutgens at sistina.com> Key fingerprint = 8FCD A1EE CEA7 DEE1 9361 F32C 0A90 30D1 9A0D DC59 sub 1024g/1FC75C99 2001-12-12