On Sam, 03 Apr 1999, you wrote: / Am Sam, 03 Apr 1999 schrieben Sie:
> Tom Berger wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> > trying to compile an especially stubborn app (kexpress-0.1.7), I've
> > stumbled over some odd settings in /usr/lib. Could someone please explain
> > to me, why some libs are set 644 and others 755? There seems to be no
> > logical pattern. And if someone did get kexpress to compile and tells
> > me how, I'd be even happier (trying for some days now, but configure still
> > doesn't acknowledge that I actually have libpng and libtiff installed
> > <hrmpf>).
>
> You'll need to have both the libpng and libpng-devel, as well as libtiff
> and libtiff-devel packages installed.
>
> If you've already gone through a ./configure on kexpress before you
> installed these packages, you'll want to do a 'make distclean' to get
> rid of the config.cache stuff, then redo the ./configure to get it to
> recognize the updates.
>
Thanks a lot, Steve. Got it at last :-)).
> [snip]
> As for the permissions in /usr/lib varying, it's a good question. Since
> it all works, it's probably just sloppy package creation, but maybe
> there's a deeper reason. Anyone??
>
Hm. But why their are different modes even for libs of the same package?
Mystifies me (like the fact that /usr/lib isn't listed in
/etc/ld.so.conf...).
> --
> Steve Philp
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
tom
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