Re: [GENERAL] trouble with pgaccess

On Sun, 21 Feb 1999, Oliver Elphick wrote:

> Kevin Heflin wrote:
> ...
>   >>   >I keep getting the following error:
>   >>   >
>   >>   >Error in startup script: couldn't load file "libpgtcl.so": libpgtcl.so:
>   >>   >cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
>  ...
>   >I started over, and did use the --with-tcl option and --with-perl
>   >then gmake all
>   >and then gmake install
>  
> So presumably you  have a file called libpgtcl.so in (say)
> /usr/local/pgsql/lib.  Your system loader needs to know to look there,
> so you have to tell it, since this is not one of the default library
> directories.


Yes, the file is in /usr/local/pgsql/lib
and I've added this directory to my /etc/ld.so.conf and run /sbin/ldconfig

> As a last resort, set the environment variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH before
> running the program.


AHA!. adding the LD_LIBRARY_PATH to my .bash_profile seems to have done
the trick

Thanks very much for the help


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