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

[David Leimbach]

/etc/ld.so.conf should have an entry for where SDL is installed.

as root:
run ldconfig.

I am 99% certain this is in some readme file somewhere.


On Friday, March 29, 2002, at 01:53 AM, Eron Hennessey wrote:

> 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
>
>
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