Re: more broken installers

[Sven Neumann <sven gimp org>]

Hi,

Anthony <orders nodivisions com> writes:

> Installing ggv-2.4.0.1.  Like many other packages, it refuses to look
> in the /usr/local/lib directory for glib, and instead it looks in
> /usr/lib.
> 
> glib is installed in /usr/local.
> 
> /etc/ld.so.conf has /usr/local/lib as the first line, and doesn't have
> /usr/lib in it at all.  And I have run ldconfig many times.
> 
> Various kludgey fixes for this brokenness have worked for other
> packages.  export LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/lib" worked for gedit, and
> export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib worked for pango.  But not ggv.
> I also tried to pass --libdir=/usr/local/lib.  But ggv doesn't seem to
> care that I've told it in many ways to look in /usr/local/lib; it
> insists on looking in /usr/lib, because the files aren't there.
> 
> (And yes, I am rm -rf'ing the ggv source folder and re-un-packing it
> each time I try something else.)
> 
> CAN SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME WHY THESE INSTALLERS ARE LOOKING IN THE
> WRONG PLACE.  Please.  Please help.  This is so frustrating.

It would help if you read the docs. Docs you should read in particular
are ldconfig(8), pkg-config(1) and

 http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/gtk-building.html
 http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/gtk-compiling.html


Sven