Gaaah. I got it into my head to separate stuff between system essentials, which will stay in /usr, and optional components like gnome which will go in /opt. So when I set out to build a new lfs/blfs, that's how I planned it.
My first attempt went poorly as some packages do not have pkg-config data files (.pc) to inform autoconf where they live. Because gcc does not look in /opt/include and /opt/lib by default, many configure scripts incorrectly reported that some of the libraries I installed to /opt did not exist (yes, /opt is in /etc/ld.so.conf but that did not help with locating include files) Fine, so I resolved to put libraries that do not have pkg-config data in /usr, and everything else in /opt. That worked better until I got to gtk, and that's when things got weird. The first time, even though fontconfig has a .pc file that correctly noted it is in /opt, the autoconf script for pango kept looking for /usr/lib/fontconfig.la . So I gave up, removed fontconfig from /opt, and reinstalled it to /usr. Then I rebuilt gtk... and now the autoconf script for pango keeps bombing out trying to locate /opt/lib/fontconfig.la. I can't win! I guess I'll have to go back to putting everything in /usr again, but it's just frustrating. Oh, the setup... Using the svn as of 20070912, kernel 2.6.22.6, gcc 4.12, binutils 2.17, libtool 1.5.24. /etc/ld.so.conf contains /opt and /usr/X11R7/lib in that order. -- Peter B. Steiger Cheyenne, WY -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
