On Sat, 2007-04-07 at 01:34 +0530, anirudh vij wrote: > i do not not have the disk space to build all of the "not found" > libs.Will creating symlinks to them in /usr/lib be good enough?or will > it screw up the system later?
It *might* work. On the other hand, it might not - you might get problems with binary compatibility, depending on what versions of the libraries you're running. That said, I can't see any way it could seriously screw up your system - as long as you don't overwrite any existing files, you could always just go back and remove the unwanted links. Or, just add the path to Fedora to /etc/ld.so.conf, and everything ought to work at runtime. One caution though - letting LFS access the libraries from Fedora is easy. The problem will be building Evince. It'll be using pkg-config to find the include files from libgnomeui and others, and even if you point pkg-config at the Fedora config files, those won't be returning correct paths, so it won't find anything. You could resolve that by symlinking stuff from /usr/include as well, but it seems like a lot of work. What might be simplest is to add the Fedora /usr/lib to /etc/ld.so.conf, then just run the Fedora copy of Evince. If that works, it's a lot easier than any of the suggestions above. Simon.
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