On 05/27/2012 06:07 PM, Ian MacArthur wrote: > > On 27 May 2012, at 21:01, Michael Surette wrote: > >> Do a sudo make install and you should be good to go. > > Mike, > > I'm not sure if that last step (doing a make install) is necessarily god > advice; my worry is that many distros still ship fltk-1.1 (if they ship fltk > at all) and the 1.1 and 1.3 libraries are not (by default) versioned in any > obvious way, and are binary incompatible... So doing a "make install" of 1.3 > may potentially tread on libraries installed by the distro, which might be a > Bad Thing. > > What I'd recommend, if you need to install fltk-1.3 at all, is to install it > to a known safe prefix, unless you know for sure that it will not collide > with the system provided libs. > > For what it is worth, I don't generally install fltk *at all* since by design > it works perfectly from the build tree so installing is not really a > necessary step.
I've only ever installed one version at a time, so this has never been an issue for me. Good to know though. Mike S _______________________________________________ fltk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.easysw.com/mailman/listinfo/fltk
