/usr/lib/ecl/ is not in ld.so.conf path

[Christian Svensson]

Binary package hint: ecl

Programs linked to libecl.so fail to find this library.

Reproduceable, Ubuntu 8.04
ecl:
  Installed: 0.9i-20070324-2ubuntu1
  Candidate: 0.9i-20070324-2ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 0.9i-20070324-2ubuntu1 0
        500 http://se.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/universe Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Solution hint:
Unable to reproduce success, but I think this worked on atleast one computer:
The solution did not work on atleast one computer.
x Create /etc/ld.so.conf/ecl with the line "/usr/lib/ecl" in it.
x Run sudo ldconfig

[Cesare Tirabassi (norsetto)]

The problem is that libecl.so is not a shared library, in the common accepted sense. There are talks (ie. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=486376) to make it so and this may happen for jaunty.
So, for the time being (in hardy and intrepid), it really must be in the path of the executable.

[Krzysztof Klimonda (kklimonda)]

Also fixed in the current development release of Ubuntu.