Fwd: Re: [OTR-users] otr plugin doesn't show up

[Paul Wouters]

On Mon, 3 Apr 2006, Greg Troxel wrote:

>   So, I cp'd libotr.so.2 into
>   /usr/lib -- and it instantly showed up in the gaim plugins list when I
>   restarted -- and didn't throw any error messages.
>
> This is asking for later trouble IMHO - you've put a file into /usr
> which is managed by the package system.
>
> A cleaner fix is to tell the system to look in /usr/local/lib for
> libraries.  Using -R/usr/local/lib on the link link for gaim-otr
> should also do this, but if Debian still discourages rpath you should
> ask the Debian people what you should do instead.

AFAIK, the correct way is to add /usr/local/lib to /etc/ld.so.conf
(and run 'ldconfig' once). I am not sure why some distributions have
stopped populating ld.so.conf with /usr/local/lib, but since that
directory normally is owned by root anyway, I don't see what harm it
could do. Only root can install libraries in there.

Paul