[Zlib-devel] [PATCH] Makefile.in: removed call to ldconfig

[Mike Frysinger]

On Friday, July 23, 2010 06:13:14 Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> * Mike Frysinger schrieb:
> > On Wednesday, July 21, 2010 08:37:21 Alon Bar-Lev wrote:
> > > This one can be fixed by:
> > > 
> > > make LDCONFIG=true
> > 
> > it'd be nice if it was ignored at least when DESTDIR was set since
> > ldconfig in that case is pointless
> 
> Actually, I'd like to reduce complexity as much as possible, so
> please, please no non-standard options/variables.

DESTDIR is not non-standard in any way.  do some research eh.

> Running ldconfig within 'make install' is absolutely pointless, IMHO.
> In the very most cases you'll run via some build system, which will
> install into some prefix (where the binpkg is created from) - in
> these cases running ldconfig is totally useless (and probably not
> even wanted).

in general you're wrong here (read the ldconfig manual), but specifically to 
zlib's usage, the invocation most of the time has no use when the libs are 
installed outside of the build system's configure paths.  it is conceivable 
that the builder would do something exotic like create a cross-ldconfig and 
point LDONFIG at it, but i dont see any value in supporting that scenario.

> That leaves only the few case when you *really* want to install
> *directly* into the live system. People doing that should know
> that they'll have to run ldconfig afterwards - on all library
> installs (not just zlib) anyways.

yep
-mike
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