Re: Help with "local" GTK debug version needed.

[David Nečas (Yeti) <yeti physics muni cz>]

On Sat, Dec 23, 2006 at 11:47:49PM -0800, Hadron wrote:

> The problem now is not that pkg_config reports the higher version is
> there but the one found is the old one.  One can expect this since the
> shared libaries I have locally are not on the path.

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-list/2006-December/msg00113.html
was sent to this very same mailing list only a few days ago.

> How do I fix this properly for the ./configure state? It seems to me
> that if I edit /etc/ld.so.conf and run "sudo ldconfig" then I will
> update the system versions too! ./configure doesnt have an "rpath"
> option.

No, definitely don't do this.

> How to tell my "test program" and others (such as atk above) to use my
> local shared libraries which contain debugging information without
> changing the system? I'm sure it is staring me in the face, but I can
> not see the wood for the trees at the moment.

I suppose you are attempting this on GNU/Linux, so please
see ld.so(8) where all the variables controlling dynamic
linker behaviour and its library search alogrithm are
explained.

Yeti


--
Whatever.