[Geany-Users] BuildingGeanyInstallFail

[Enrico Tröger]

Hi Geoff,

On 24.08.20 20:24, Geoff Kaniuk wrote:
> Running the Autotools based build system  from the current online manual
> https://www.geany.org/manual/current/index.html (version 1.35), I
> successfully completed the configure task:
> ==============================================================
> $ ./configure
> $ make
> ==============================================================
> 
> However, the installation failed as it could not find ldconfig:
> ==============================================================
> # make install
> ...
> /bin/bash: line 3: ldconfig: command not found
> make[4]: *** [Makefile:1660: fix-ubuntu-libdir] Error 127

As root, ldconfig should be found.
As user, ldconfig is usually not callable without the full path (as it
is located in /sbin).

So, it looks like you ran "make install" as user. OTOH, usually unless
manually changed, users cannot write to /usr/local.

Try running "make install" as root.

Regards,
Enrico

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