Re: gnustep-make experiment

[Nicola Pero]

>>  * How we decide if we have to run ldconfig or not ?  Do we need to  
>> run it only on GNU/Linux ?  Are there similar tools on other  
>> unixes ? (I imagine so, so we'll have a general-purpose post- 
>> library-install target-dependent command that we run automatically)
>
> I'm pretty sure even libtool doesn't do that.  It prints out a big  
> warning about having to add the paths to your ld.conf yourself.

Yes


> I'd feel uncomfortable having something automatically mess with a system  
> file that could potential make the system unusable (however remotely).

That's a good point - yes, ldconfig might generate issues. ;-)

I suppose the right thing to do is printing a warning too then! ;-)

Do we print it only on Linux ?

Thanks