I'am compiling SVGAlib and it has a Makefile and I ran make install and it stops on a error
can't find ldconfig, I did a find next on Makefile for ldconfig and the only entry for ldconfig
is shown below, I used a editor to insert the /sbin/ldconfig, but it still comes up with can't find ldconfig while doing make install.
What gives ??

Jim

(this is the only entry for ldconfig in the Makefile)

endif
@echo Installing shared library image as \
$(addprefix $(sharedlibdir)/,$(notdir $(SHAREDLIBS))).
@for foo in $(notdir $(SHAREDLIBS)); do \
$(INSTALL_SHLIB) sharedlib/$$foo $(sharedlibdir)/$$foo; \
(cd $(sharedlibdir); \
ln -sf $$foo `echo $$foo | sed 's/\.so\..*/.so/'` ); \
done
@./fixldsoconf
@/sbin/ldconfig

"I'am compiling SVGAlib and it has a Makefile and I ran make install and it stops on a error
can't find ldconfig, I did a find next on Makefile for ldconfig and the only entry for ldconfig
is shown below, I used a editor to insert the /sbin/ldconfig, but it still comes up with can't find ldconfig while doing make install."

Could you post the exact error message? Maybe it can't find the ldconfig program or maybe it is having trouble editing the ldconfig configuration file, /etc/ld.so.conf

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Steve Stites

This is the place the error occurs.

Jim

make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/mickey/libc/svgalib-1.9.21/svgalib-1.9.21/kernel/svgalib_helper'
(cd threeDKit/; make install)
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/mickey/libc/svgalib-1.9.21/svgalib-1.9.21/threeDKit'
cc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -fPIC -I../include -I. -I../src -fomit-frame-pointer -O2 -fno-strength-reduce -pipe -c -o 3dinit.o 3dinit.c
cc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -fPIC -I../include -I. -I../src -fomit-frame-pointer -O2 -fno-strength-reduce -pipe -c -o 3dkit.o 3dkit.c
cc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -fPIC -I../include -I. -I../src -fomit-frame-pointer -O2 -fno-strength-reduce -pipe -c -o quickmath.o quickmath.c
cc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -fPIC -I../include -I. -I../src -fomit-frame-pointer -O2 -fno-strength-reduce -pipe -c -o swtriangle.o swtriangle.c
cc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -fPIC -I../include -I. -I../src -fomit-frame-pointer -O2 -fno-strength-reduce -pipe -c -o triangl.o triangl.c
cc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -fPIC -I../include -I. -I../src -fomit-frame-pointer -O2 -fno-strength-reduce -pipe -c -o triangle.o triangle.c
cc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -fPIC -I../include -I. -I../src -fomit-frame-pointer -O2 -fno-strength-reduce -pipe -c -o wrapsurf.o wrapsurf.c
cc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -fPIC -I../include -I. -I../src -fomit-frame-pointer -O2 -fno-strength-reduce -pipe -c -o wtriangle.o wtriangle.c
cc -shared -Wl,-soname,lib3dkit.so.1 \
-o lib3dkit.so.1.9.21 3dinit.o 3dkit.o quickmath.o swtriangle.o triangl.o triangle.o wrapsurf.o wtriangle.o -lm
install -c -m 755 -o root -g root lib3dkit.so.1.9.21 /usr/local/lib/lib3dkit.so.1.9.21
(cd /usr/local/lib; ln -sf lib3dkit.so.1.9.21 `echo lib3dkit.so.1.9.21 | sed 's/\.so\..*/.so/'` )
ldconfig
make[1]: ldconfig: Command not found
make[1]: *** [/usr/local/lib/lib3dkit.so.1.9.21] Error 127
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/mickey/libc/svgalib-1.9.21/svgalib-1.9.21/threeDKit'
make: *** [lib3dkit-install] Error 2

"make[1]: ldconfig: Command not found"

It is not finding the ldconfig command. Are you running as root or user? It is possible that user cannot run ldconfig. try this command:
which ldconfig
to see if ldconfig is available to the make command.

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Steve Stites

if I type in which ldconfig , it can't find ldconfig , but if I type in whereis ldconfig it points to it in /sbin/ldconfig.
And that is where I edited in, in the Makefile.
I'm running make install as su "root"

Jim

"if I type in which ldconfig , it can't find ldconfig"

ldconfig is not on your PATH.

"I'm running make install as su "root""

su "root" has a different PATH than root on most distributions. Try doing your compile as root.

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Steve Stites

I think that you want to use "su -l" instead of just plain "su". This will set your paths to the root path. You could try both "su" and "su -l" and then look at the difference in the $PATH variable to make sure.