Re: Need I worry about this.. ldconfig: warning?

[Harry Putnam <reader newsguy com>]

Jeff Johnson <jbj@JBJ.ORG> writes:

> On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 08:58:12PM -0800, Harry Putnam wrote:
> > When installing rpms I've seen this message at times.  It has been
> > showing itself for mnths but I haven't really seen any problems I
> > could connect to this:
> > 
> > ldconfig: warning: /usr/lib/libnewt.so.0.50 is not a symlink
> > ldconfig: warning: /usr/lib/libnewt.so.0.50 is not a symlink
> > 
> 
> The glibc-2.2 ldconfig is complaining about a dangling symlink, nothing
> more, can be safely ignored.
> 
> Nuke the symlink, problem goes away. We're working on eliminating the
> message in glibc as well.

The messages says there is *NOT* a symlink and sure enough ls -l
/usr/lib/libnewt* shows none there:

ls -l /usr/lib/libnewt*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        66414 Sep  1  1999 /usr/lib/libnewt.so.0.50
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        55072 Feb 25  2000 /usr/lib/libnewt.so.0.50.8

One of thes is apparently supposed to be a symlink but they are
different sizes and its not clear what is supposed to happen there.

`rpm -V newt' shows no problems at all.
A reinstall of the newt rpm doesn't fix it either.