Hello all,

This is my first post here. I'm running Slackware 10.2 and am a newbie. I posted this same question on other forums but got no answers. I was trying to compile xmule and got error messages in ldconfig. Then, as root, I ran ldconfig the the following returned:

Any ideas as how to solve this?

Thanks in advance!

Do these really exist as files or as links?

newbie reply...

how do I check that?

The first field are the file permissions (e.g. -rwxr-xr-x). The first character is the file type. - for regular files, l for symbolic links, d for directory etc. A symbolic link will also have a target (->)., e.g.

ls -l /lib/ld-linux.so.2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 2005-04-16 23:50 /lib/ld-linux.so.2 -> ld-2.3.4.so

Damn! This thing (my computer) is SO slow and shouldn't be, after all it's an Athlon XP 2000+ with 512 Mb PC2100 and lot's of HDD (OK, I'm running Vegastrike now, but even when I'm not it feels slow!)

I'm posting the output from an xterm:


root@MCLAREN:~# ls -l /usr/local/lib
total 26600
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2005-10-10 10:24 giFT/
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 801 2005-10-10 10:22 libgift.la*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 450599 2005-10-10 10:22 libgift.so*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 450599 2005-10-10 10:22 libgift.so.0*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 450599 2005-10-10 10:22 libgift.so.0.0.0*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 857 2005-10-10 10:22 libgiftproto.la*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 86343 2005-10-10 10:22 libgiftproto.so*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 86343 2005-10-10 10:22 libgiftproto.so.0*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 86343 2005-10-10 10:22 libgiftproto.so.0.0.0*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1760655 2005-10-14 11:48 libwx_base-2.6.so*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1760655 2005-10-14 11:48 libwx_base-2.6.so.0*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1760655 2005-10-14 11:48 libwx_base-2.6.so.0.2.0*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 223451 2005-10-14 11:48 libwx_base_net-2.6.so*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 223451 2005-10-14 11:48 libwx_base_net-2.6.so.0*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 223451 2005-10-14 11:48 libwx_base_net-2.6.so.0.2.0*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 50176 2005-10-14 11:48 libwx_base_xml-2.6.so*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 50176 2005-10-14 11:48 libwx_base_xml-2.6.so.0*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 50176 2005-10-14 11:48 libwx_base_xml-2.6.so.0.2.0*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 810522 2005-10-14 11:48 libwx_gtk2_adv-2.6.so*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 810522 2005-10-14 11:48 libwx_gtk2_adv-2.6.so.0*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 810522 2005-10-14 11:48 libwx_gtk2_adv-2.6.so.0.2.0*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4197900 2005-10-14 11:48 libwx_gtk2_core-2.6.so*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4197900 2005-10-14 11:48 libwx_gtk2_core-2.6.so.0*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4197900 2005-10-14 11:48 libwx_gtk2_core-2.6.so.0.2.0*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 701084 2005-10-14 11:48 libwx_gtk2_html-2.6.so*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 701084 2005-10-14 11:48 libwx_gtk2_html-2.6.so.0*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 701084 2005-10-14 11:48 libwx_gtk2_html-2.6.so.0.2.0*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6402 2005-10-14 11:48 libwx_gtk2_media-2.6.so*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6402 2005-10-14 11:48 libwx_gtk2_media-2.6.so.0*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6402 2005-10-14 11:48 libwx_gtk2_media-2.6.so.0.2.0*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 146428 2005-10-14 11:48 libwx_gtk2_qa-2.6.so*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 146428 2005-10-14 11:48 libwx_gtk2_qa-2.6.so.0*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 146428 2005-10-14 11:48 libwx_gtk2_qa-2.6.so.0.2.0*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 576269 2005-10-14 11:48 libwx_gtk2_xrc-2.6.so*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 576269 2005-10-14 11:48 libwx_gtk2_xrc-2.6.so.0*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 576269 2005-10-14 11:48 libwx_gtk2_xrc-2.6.so.0.2.0*
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2005-10-10 10:22 pkgconfig/
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2005-10-10 12:30 wx/
root@MCLAREN:~#

It seems that none are symbolic links, right?

Yes, it looks like some stupid installer has copied the files instead of linking them.

All the files that end with .so and .so.X should be symlinks, while .so.X.X.X are the actual libraries.

This should sort them out:

ldconfig will (re)create the links properly (you might want to backup /usr/local/lib first, in case of typos etc).

As for your box being slow, make sure you have dma enabled (as root: hdparm /dev/hda).

Run the command ' ldconfig -n /lib '. This rebuilds it.

Brian1

One of the two post solved the problem!
Thanks!