RE: gd and libgd

[Stephen Gardner <stephen-rhel uk org>]

On Thu, 24 Mar 2005, Fred Magee wrote:

> > > Jason Brown wrote:
> > > I was trying to install ImageMagick and it wouldn't pick up the gd and
> > > libgd.  I compiled these packages and then the ImageMagick program now
> > > works.  The problem that I am now having is with my Webalizer program
> > > is not working because it says that it cannot find libgd.  I try
> > > compiling it with the --with-libgd option which points to
> > > /usr/local/lib and it compiles ok, but when I try and start the
> > > program it complains that it can't find libgd.so.2
> > > Does anyone have any ideas on how to fix this?

> > Is /usr/local/lib listed in your /etc/ld.so.conf?
> > If not, add it and run ldconfig as root.

> Does /usr/lib or /lib need to be in /etc/ld.so.conf?  I'm having a
> similar problem with libdc++.so.5.

Fred,
       /usr/lib  and  /lib  are included when ldconfig is run by default. 
You could run  ldconfig -p |grep <libraryname>  to see if the library is 
listed in the dynamic library cache. It may be worth running
ldd <program-name>  and putting the missing library name into
find / -name '<missing-libraryname>'  just to make sure the 
required library file(s) is on the system if you haven't already.

Regards,
        Stephen

PS.  A quick final thought is that if  libdc++.so.5  was a typo of 
libstdc++.so.5  then is comes as part of the compat-libstdc++-33..
rpm -q compat-libstdc++-33  might worth checking.

References:
ldconfig(8)  man page