On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 3:14 PM, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wednesday 30 April 2008, Todd Zullinger wrote: > >Gene Heskett wrote: > >> Greetings; > >> > >> Can anyone explain the reason why F8, by default, does not include > >> /usr/local/lib in its working pathlist? > > > >Because nothing in Fedora uses /usr/local/lib. > > > >> I just had to add another file naming it in /etc/ld.so.conf.d > > > >Your fingers must be sore after all that typing. ;-) > > > >> I don't recall ever having to do that in any previous incarnations > >> of fedora, it was always there. > > > >I don't recall it being there in any Fedora release. It's not in F7 > >that I can see. What makes you say it is? What file(s) is it > >included in? > > I was trying to build pfmon for the 2.6.25 kernel, and by default, it put all > the libraries in /usr/local exactly as any good tarball install should do. > But when I built the kernel and rebooted to it and then tried to build the > utility itself, its Makefile included the correct links to allow it to build. > But the installed build could not then find its libraries because the path to > them was not in the working pathlist for ldconfig. That seems almost like an > immature attempt at vendor lock in to me and leaves a bad taste. > > I added it, but now I seem to be lost in a shimmering cloud of acronyms as it > now says the PMU in my machine is not supported. No mention of it in any of > the Makefiles for pfmon. I'm assuming its a memory manager. And as this > board has run relatively well for about 4 years now, I have to assume that > the AMD XP-2800 & NForce2 chipset it uses does have such a beastie. > > So what exactly is a PMU? > > Google says its either the Progressive Muslim Union or Power Management Unit.....i don't know which way to go on this one.... Max -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
