Is panel plugins integration broken at the moment?

[Carol Spears]

On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 12:41:40PM +0200, Jasper Huijsmans wrote:
> Carol Spears schreef:
> > On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 10:34:31AM +0200, Jasper Huijsmans wrote:
> > 
> >>My guess is that the plugins are unable to find the panel library. Make 
> >>sure you have the ${prefix}/lib/ in /etc/ld.so.conf or as part of the 
> >>LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
> >>
> >>Btw, if someone knows of a good way to solve this problem, please let me 
> >>know.
> >>
> > 
> > this isn't a problem.  not really.  
> > 
> > i spent about two years typing ldconfig every single time i compiled
> > something.  i think it tells you do do this in the make install spew.
> > 
> > then i learned that you only had to do this after installing new
> > libraries.  then i stopped running ldconfig after every new build.  then
> > i ran into problems.  the very next thing is to get embarrassed by the
> > developers and this seems to help kick in the understanding of when you
> > are adding new libraries and not.
> > 
> > it is my experience that it is easier to embarrass people on the irc.
> > 
> 
> ;-)
> 
> The problem is slightly more complicated than this, because the main 
> program (the panel) works just fine.
> 
> It seems the linker automatically looks for libaries in ${prefix}/lib 
> when running binaries in ${prefix}/bin. This is not the case for plugins 
> in ${prefix}/libexec/xfce4/panel-plugins.
> 
that is interesting.  i do not remember seeing that directory before any
where.  i have one in /usr/local where xfce is but debian did not put
one in /usr.  did it come from samba?

carol