Where to put dev libs? Update

"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.
I worked with the debian packager for about a week and he gave up. We
tried everthing and couldn't get it to compile. I haven't tried the
precompiled versions yet.

>
> 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
This doesn't work in stable.

I tried.

Eric R.