Re: libpspell.so.2

[Matthew Guenther <mguenthe engr UVic CA>]

On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, James deBoer wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I an attempt to compile balsa 9.5.0 and a recent CVS download, I have come
> across this problem. Everything compiles and installed fine, but when I go
> to run in I get this error:
> 
> balsa: error in loading shared libraries: libpspell.so.2: cannot open
> shared object file: No such file or directory
> 
> Now, I compiled and installed pspell, and the ispell module. I /think/
> everything went ok with that. I can find libpspell.so.2 in /usr/local/lib/
> . How come this is not working for me? What am I missing?
> 

It most likely is because Balsa doesn't know where to find the library.
Although you compiled the library, by default most systems do not look in
/usr/local/lib for shared libraries.  

There are two options;  You can set an environment variable, LD_LIBRARY_PATH
to the location of the shared library (/usr/local/lib).  Or, if you have
root access, you can add /usr/local/lib to /etc/ld.so.conf and run ldconfig
to add /usr/local/lib to the default search path.

HTH,

MBG

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