Re: compiling gnome platform

[Joe Van Dyk <joevandyk gmail com>]

On 8/2/05, Jean Bréfort <jean brefort normalesup org> wrote:
> Le mardi 02 août 2005 à 11:57 -0700, Joe Van Dyk a écrit :
> > And if the best solution is to install them to, say, /opt or
> > something, what environment variables would I need to set to make
> > everything work correctly?  $LD_LIBRARY_PATH?  $LD_RUN_PATH?  Is this
> > stuff documented anywhere?
> 
> $LD_LIBRARY_PATH and $PKG_CONFIG_PATH.

Thanks.

So, if the new gnome libs were installed to /opt, and applications
that used those libs were installed in /opt/bin, would every user who
wanted to run the applications need to set $LD_LIBRARY_PATH to include
/opt before running those applications?  Or would the path to the libs
be included in the executable?

> 
> > On 8/2/05, Joe Van Dyk <joevandyk gmail com> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I'm writing an application that heavily uses gnomecanvas.  It needs to
> > > run on redhat 8, 9, and enterprise 3.0.
> > >
> > > But the version of gnomecanvas/libart/others that ships with RH 9 and
> > > earlier has some pretty bad bugs that my application exposes.
> > >
> > > So, what's the best way to install newer versions of the gnomecanvas
> > > (and possibly other) libraries that hopefully wouldn't conflict too
> > > much with the base install?  Just compile and install from source?
> > > Where should I install them to?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Joe
> > >
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> Jean Bréfort <jean brefort normalesup org>
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