Steve Traylen wrote:
> 2008/5/12 Shane Voss <[log in to unmask]>:
>> The RPM for tclx-8.4.0-5.fc6 seems to me to be broken.
>>
>>  The RPM delivers /usr/lib/tclx8.4/
>>  which contains a bunch of .tcl files, and also libtclx8.4.so
>>  It runs  ldconfig  after install, but this won't find the .so  file.

> Not sure what it is you want to do but does installing the tclx-devel
> package help.

Hi Steve,

No, adding the -devel doesn't help.
I was compiling up a package which uses tclx (so I have the -devel installed 
anyway).  The binary that gets spat out at the end won't load because it can't 
find  libtclx8.4.so

I would expect a well made RPM that delivers such a library to make it 
findable.  The choices I can think of are to put it (or a link) in 
/usr/lib(64)/ or, if there is some good reason to put it in a sub-directory, 
to put an entry in /etc/ld.so.conf.d/ to help ldconfig find it.

Since the RPM explicitly runs  ldconfig, it suggests to me that the author 
expected it to get found.

    Shane

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