On 20-Sep-99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>> Ah, I didn't know about src/.libs (and I suspect a lot of other
>>> Mesa users won't either).
>> Long-time Mesa users will realize that there's a configure script
>> and therefore they'll assume that the usual
>> "configure; make; make install" works.
> But I don't want to install the library - I use it with LD_LIBRARY_PATH
> since my primary libGL is from GLX project...
cd src; make install prefix=/home/me/mesa
will install it in /home/me/mesa/lib.
The demos don't require an installed libGL.
> Why is this directory hidden anyway?
I don't know the reasoning of the original libtool author.
Maybe he wanted to keep the directory "clean".
.libs contains libtool-specific data that must not be modified.
> IMHO it's no good idea hiding things somewhere - I donīt want to
> get impressed by autoconf magic features but want to see what's going on...
Follow the make output or set alias ls="ls -a" ;-)
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