Re: Compilation/use problem

[alaric portone com]

Rich,

As root:  ldconfig -p    will print out the currently available libraries
and where they are located.  As for where to locate your libraries, that's
really personal preference, although I prefer to locate libraries for many
apps on /usr and single-purpose libs on /usr/local


Leeman

On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, Rich Shepard wrote:

> On Tue, 15 Aug 2000 alaric@portone.com wrote:
> 
> > Check to see that 1.2.8 got installed to the same location that 1.2.7 was
> > installed previously.  The default location with a vanilla ./configure
> > uses /usr/local as the root location (putting the libraries in
> > /usr/local/lib)  if 1.2.7 is rooted in /usr then there's gonna be a
> > problem.  If the original install is an rpm I suggest removing it before
> > compiling/installing the new version.
> 
> Leeman,
> 
>   I haven't installed via rpm, but by tarball. I guess that my problem boils
> down to identifying where the different versions are installed.
> 
>   Usually, I do a vanilla ./configure. Yesterday, at the suggestion of a
> local user group member, I used the --prefix=/usr switch. I'll try without
> it again.
>  
> > If you do tell configure to root the install to the same location as the
> > previous install, everything should work just fine, however you will still
> > have the older libraries available (not a bad thing, but space consuming).
> 
>   What command will tell me which libraries are installed, and where each
> one is?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Rich
> 
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