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From: "Gernot M. Fuchs" <gfuchs@pasteur.med.unc.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: Help with Xwindows
Date: 17 Sep 1995 03:23:00 GMT
Organization: Medical School / UNC-CH
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You have to run /usr/etc/ldconfig. ldconfig is used to configure a
performance-enhancing  cache for  the  run-time  link-editor,  ld.so. 
It is run from /etc/rc.local and periodically via cron to avoid linking
with stale libraries. It should be also be run manually when a new shared
object (e.g., a shared library) is installed on the system.

If you run it w/o options, it uses the default path for the set of directories
searched by the link editors.

Hope this helps 

-Gernot