On Don, 2003-03-27 at 04:09, Leif Delgass wrote:
> On 27 Mar 2003, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> 
> > On Don, 2003-03-27 at 01:33, Leif Delgass wrote:
> > > I just ran into a problem with this change in host.def when building the
> > > trunk:
> > > 
> > > #define UsrLibDir /usr/X11R6/lib
> > > 
> > > This caused the build to be installed in /usr/X11R6 even though I had 
> > > ProjectRoot defined as /usr/X11R6-DRI.  According to xc/config/cf/README, 
> > > UsrLibDir is the "directory in which to install libraries."  
> > 
> > Whoops.
> > 
> > > Judging from the checkin comment, perhaps AlternateUsrLibDir was what 
> > > was intended? (README says "linker needs -L to find project libraries").  
> > 
> > Yes, that looks better. Unless you beat me to it, I'll probably look
> > into this tomorrow.
> > 
> > > There is also an AlternateIncRoot for includes.
> > 
> > I don't recall ever having problems with includes.
> 
> I've never run into problems with includes or libs myself.  Was there a 
> specific problem you ran into with the wrong libs being used in the build? 

Just the good old 'some X libs need to be present in ProjectRoot/lib'.
We have gotten used to putting symlinks there, but people who change
ProjectRoot for the first time usually get bitten by this.


-- 
Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member   /  CS student, Free Software enthusiast



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