[SDL] Problems with SDL dynamic libs and Redhat 7.2?

[Eron Hennessey]

Hi, I'm having problems with getting the SDL dynamic libs to run.

My configuration is Redhat 7.2 w/ 2.4.18 kernel.  I rpm -e'd the default
SDL config, since I wanted to use the latest 1.2.3 version of SDL.

to install, I just did a ./configure; make; make install.  I recall that
worked fine on my FreeBSD system.

On my Redhat system, though, when I try to run my app, I get an "unable
to load shared library libSDL-1.2.so" message.

I can run if I explicitly add /usr/local/lib to LD_LIBRARY_PATH... but
it sucks having to do that every time.

Also, I tried adding /usr/local/lib to /etc/ld.so.conf, to no avail.

Anybody run into/solved this problem?  I know Redhat likes to do think
in a non-unix fashion, putting config files in strange places and all
that, but... help?  ;)

- Eron