http://gcc.gnu.org/install/finalinstall.html

http://gcc.gnu.org/install/finalinstall.html

[Fantasy (Fay)]

Hi there!

I just compiled gcc3.2 on my SuSE Linux machine. As I am relatively new to
linux systems in terms of installing, compiling and so on, I ran into an
error that I could not solve myself. I am glad I have a friend who could
help me, and I thought that this might be information You could include on
your page.

After I made "make install", I tried to compile something with g++ and when
trying to execute, I ran into the following error:
./a.out: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open
shared object file: No such file or directory
Now my friend told me to run "ldconfig" (as root). Then it worked.

I thought that this might be useful information for Your Final installation
page.

Greetings,
Wolfram Koska

Re: http://gcc.gnu.org/install/finalinstall.html

[Gerald Pfeifer]

On Sun, 13 Oct 2002, Fantasy (Fay) wrote:
> After I made "make install", I tried to compile something with g++ and when
> trying to execute, I ran into the following error:
> ./a.out: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open
> shared object file: No such file or directory
> Now my friend told me to run "ldconfig" (as root). Then it worked.
>
> I thought that this might be useful information for Your Final
> installation page.

Indeed, this is something we should document better.

Folks, any suggestions how to enhance our install documentation in that
respect? Should we recommend using LD_LIBRARY_PATH? Or refer to some other
piece of documentation?

Gerald
-- 
Gerald "Jerry" pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/~pfeifer/