Where to put dev libs?

[Eric Richardson]

der.hans,

I'll have to think about what you are saying. I think the env var you
are thinking of is LD_LIB_PATH or LD_LIBRARY_PATH or something like this
- it has been awhile since I have messed with that. I just know that
every day someone is doing this stuff and there has to be an easy way.
Maybe our resident KDE guru knows how to keep these libs from
conflicting. I'm might be being over cautious but I don't have a lot of
extra boxes to do work on.

The "make install" puts the headers and libs in /usr/local but that's
where the libgnome 1.0 is located.

Anyway, have a good holiday - you've given me plenty of things to look
into.

Eric

"der.hans" wrote:
> 
> Am 25. May, 2001 schwäzte Eric Richardson so:
> 
> > I'm trying to compile a program gbonds on Debian stable. I've installed
> > the libxxx-dev packages needed and since libgnome was too old, 1.0.56
> > instead of 1.2.xx, I downloaded the source from testing and compiled it.
> > So far so good.
> 
> Could you just use libgnome from testing? Using the configged apt-test I
> posted last week allows you to not dirty your stable package lists.
> 
> BTW, apt-get can now handle specifying dist, e.g.:
> 
> apt-get install libgnome/testing
> 
> I haven't used this yet, so don't know what the implications are. I'm
> currently building a test machine to make sure they're exhibiting sane
> behavoir before relying on this new feature :).
> 
> > Now I don't have a clue on how to package it or whether I should just do
> > a make install and forget it. The second idea sort of breaks the Debian
> > way and could overwrite header and libs that are needed by the current
> > machine etc.
> >
> > I could copy the libs and headers into the gbonds directory to compile
> > so the -I. or -L. compiler options can pick them up or I could do a
> > ./configure --prefix=PATH so the libs and headers go elsewhere but then
> > the gbonds make won't work.
> 
> If not making a .deb you'd want to use /usr/local. You can get gbonds to
> work by loading the lib before starting gbonds. Don't remember what var it
> is that needs to be set, though :(. Used to need it for Netscape. Looks like
> we still do. Look for $LD_PRELOAD in the wrapper script, I think that's what
> you need.
> 
> There are two ways to set $LD_PRELOAD before running gbonds without muddying
> the rest of your environment. One is the way Netscape does it, e.g. write a
> script that sets it and calls gbonds.
> 
> LD_PRELOAD=/usr/local/lib/libgnome.so.1.2 gbonds
> 
> Another way ( that is supposed to work, is ultra-cool and untested by me :)
> is to setup a gbonds file in /etc/default. The files in /etc/default are
> supposed to be loaded prior to running a program. Looks like that has to be
> supported by the package itself, though. See /etc/init.d/rcS on a debian
> system for an example.
> 
> ciao,
> 
> der.hans
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