On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, Ben A. Hetland wrote:
>
> "James K. Lowden" wrote:
>>
>> I'm new to the Gnu development environment, and I'm hoping someone can
>> tell me what obvious thing I need to do to build dia.
> [...]
>> Turbolinux came with all the developer's tools (except gdk-pixbuf, which
>> I think I built and installed correctly to /usr/local/lib from
>> ftp.rpmfind.net/linux/gnome.org/unstable/sources/gdk-pixbuf).
>
> I didn't get the autogen-stuff to work with the libraries/headers stored
> under /usr/local/... Got about the same errors as you get. The
> "quick-and-dirty" solution for me was to install these (self-built)
> libraries under /usr/include and /usr/lib directly.
>
> I didn't investigate further, but there seems to be some issues here
> that the concept of /usr/local is not quite understood by the
> "automatic" tools (maybe it's as simple as an env. variable or rc-file,
> though...).
It should be that simple. Make sure /usr/local/bin is first in your PATH,
and that /usr/local/lib is first in your LD_LIBRARY_PATH. That's all it
should need.
-Lars
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