How to add /sbin to useable paths on FC5

Nigel Henry cave.dnb at tiscali.fr
Sun Mar 4 18:04:46 UTC 2007


On Sunday 04 March 2007 18:38, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Sunday 04 March 2007, Nigel Henry wrote:
> >I have a problem when compiling a library. I am upgrading Aldrin, a
> > music app. The latest version needs a library that used to be
> > integrated in Aldrin, but now needs to be installed separately. The
> > library "libzzub" doesn't seem to be available for FC5, at least not in
> > extras, or freshrpms.
> >
> >This library is built using scons, but when I su to root to do a "scons
> >install" it insists on running ldconfig, which it can't as it's not
> >calling /sbin/ldconfig, and lunches out saying there's a problem.
> >
> >I had a look in /etc/profiles, and I'm sure on an earlier version of FC,
> > I added /sbin to the paths, but FC5 seems to be a bit different.
> >
> >What do I need to do, so that it is not necessary to call ldconfig
> >as /sbin/ldconfig?
>
> 'su -' maybe?

Thanks Gene. I'd tried that, but then scons install was looking in the /root 
directory for the SConstruct file, and it obviously wasn't there. Darned 
computers!

Nigel.




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