On Tue 08 Jan 2002, Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote: > > > > Unpack it in your home directory, and modify PATH (and perhaps > > LD_LIBRARY_PATH) to suit before invoking the build. I did something > > similar when I needed to build isdnutils on powerpc (which need gcc-3.0 > > to build, and gcc-3.0 wasn't installed. Using a different compiler is a > > bit more painful then bzip2, as the compiler refers to all sorts of hard > > path for preprocessor, libs, includes, ...) > > I was able to install bzip2 in my home directory, but it is also > dynamically linked against /usr/lib/libbzip* and I don't know how to > add a new library path, iow, should I recompile bzip2 explicitly > specifying a new library path ?
That's what the LD_LIBRARY_PATH is for... Put the directory where you've put libbzip* into the environment variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH and bzip2 should then search for it also there. Paul Slootman
