On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 12:06 PM, Melchior FRANZ wrote:
> No, you can leave that. Just install plib somewhere else (e.g. in
> your home dir), and point sg and fg to it via --with-plib=...
> plib is (supposed to be) linked statically, so it's not needed
> at runtime and can be anywhere.
Just be careful ... multiple versions of libs can coexist just fine in
different places on your hard drive, but if in a couple months, you forget
how you set it up, or just lose focus momentarily, you could end up building
against the wrong version of the package (or even headers from one version
and libs from another, etc.) and end up with some weirdness ... so it's
always best to recognize your own limitations and weaknesses and decide if
you want more than one version of a lib on your system at one time. :-)
There are many ways to make this easier or harder on yourself ... I won't
get into all the sysadmin details, but as a general rule of thumb, I
personally try to avoid having pre-packaged versions of software installed
on the same system as a different version built from source ... as long as I
can sidestep the dependency hell of the linux packaging system to remove a
particular package.
Regards,
Curt.
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Curtis Olson: http://baron.flightgear.org/~curt/
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