From 91778e890de01eb02160f6326450d2e4eeda580c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 23:20:02 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Suggest running ldconfig after installation if available.
---
doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml | 25 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml
index 49bb5c2dcc1..a2804e76dd2 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-<!-- $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml,v 1.57 2001/09/21 18:37:05 petere Exp $ -->
+<!-- $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml,v 1.58 2001/09/21 23:20:02 petere Exp $ -->
<chapter id="installation">
<title><![%standalone-include[<productname>PostgreSQL</>]]>
@@ -1075,6 +1075,29 @@ libpq.so.2.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
</screen>
then this step was necessary. Simply take care of it then.
</para>
+
+ <para>
+ <indexterm>
+ <primary>ldconfig</primary>
+ </indexterm>
+ If you are on <systemitem class="osname">BSD/OS</>, <systemitem
+ class="osname">Linux</>, or <systemitem class="osname">SunOS 4</>
+ and you have root access you can run
+<programlisting>
+/sbin/ldconfig /usr/local/pgsql/lib
+</programlisting>
+ (or equivalent directory) after installation to enable the
+ run-time linker to find the shared libraries faster. Refer to the
+ manual page of <command>ldconfig</> for more information. On
+ <systemitem class="osname">FreeBSD</>, <systemitem
+ class="osname">NetBSD</>, and <systemitem
+ class="osname">OpenBSD</> the command is
+<programlisting>
+/sbin/ldconfig -m /usr/local/pgsql/lib
+</programlisting>
+ instead. Other systems are not known to have an equivalent
+ command.
+ </para>
</sect2>
<sect2>
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