Hi:
* Steven Karatnyk <stevenkaratnyk at rogers.com> [2006-01-16 15:11:03 -0500]:
> > Any potential for error if the the wrong library is being read?
* Jean Delvare <khali at linux-fr.org> [2006-01-16 23:27:03 +0100]:
> You would miss the improvements brought by the newer version if this
> was happening to you. Additionally you might enounter missing symbol
> errors. It's quite frequent that people install lm_sensors CVS
> in /usr/local and still have lm_sensors from their distribution
> in /usr. Usually they will run the right (new) version of "sensors" (if
> their PATH is correct, that is) but that version of sensors may link
> dynamically with libsensors from /usr/lib - the old version.
>
> Our installation process tries to detect the case and should warn about
> it, but it might not always work and not everyone pays attention to the
> warnings, unfortunately.
Steven, you can use the following command to see which libraries would be
used by sensors:
$ ldd `which sensors`
E.g., mine says this:
$ ldd `which sensors`
linux-gate.so.1 => (0xffffe000)
libsensors.so.3 => /usr/local/lib/libsensors.so.3 (0xb7f65000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/libc.so.6 (0xb7e22000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/tls/libm.so.6 (0xb7dff000)
libsysfs.so.1 => /usr/lib/libsysfs.so.1 (0xb7df5000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7f9f000)
Regards,
--
Mark M. Hoffman
mhoffman at lightlink.com
