Adam's method worked. but thanks anyway for the instructions

On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 11:20 PM, Krzysztof Walo <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, 2013-07-05 at 22:14 +0530, Chamila Adhikarinayake wrote:
> > Hi Again,
> >
> > I'm new to building applications by compiling the source in linux.up
> > to now i managed to compile the code without any problem.
> > (I'm using Gnote).I did ./autogen.sh, make , make install. every thing
> > went fine.
> > this may be dumb question. i want to know how to run the application
> > after that.I found gnote in /usr/local/bin. is this the one i should
> > run?.  (I tried to run it by using ./gnote but i got "./gnote: error
> > while loading shared libraries: libgnote-3.9.so.1: cannot open shared
> > object file: No such file or directory" error message)
> > I really want to do some coding but i don't know how to test it
> > without running the app (or is there a different way to test the
> > code).
> >  If i'm doing things wrong, can some one give the all the  steps or
> > give some links for some tutorials.
> >
> > thanks again for taking some time to help me
> >
> > Chamila
>
> Hi,
>
> If you haven't passed any options to ./autogen.sh, or ./configure, gnote
> will install by default under /usr/local prefix, so binary will be
> in /usr/local/bin and libraries in /usr/local/lib.
>
> If you just want hack on gnote, make install step is not necessary. You
> can just compile the program, using make and run it as you did, from
> build directory, using ./gnote.
>
> You got the error about missing libgnote library, because program loader
> does not know where to look for this library. You need to tell him, by
> modifying LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
>
> So if you do ./autogen.sh and then make, if everything builds
> succesfully, you should run compiled gnote using:
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/path/to/directory/where/libgnote/is ./gnote
>
> Krzysztof
>
>
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