Re: more broken installers

[Mariano Suarez-Alvarez <msuarezalvarez arnet com ar>]

On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 11:57, Sven Neumann wrote:
> 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.
> >
> > 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

Of course, reading TFM can never hurt. But since we can reasonably
assume (?) that he did run the configure script, shouldn't have it have
already checked that glib is reachable (using any of the searching
conventions available), and, if that had not beed the case, refused to
even build the Makefiles?

-- m

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