On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 17:50:12 +0100
sacha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I've had a rummage on google/GMANE/the wiki and played with the configure
> flags but haven't found the answer.

> I need to compile transcode on one machine in such a way that it will work
> on another. At the moment it seems that paths get hardwired into the
> executables at compile time, such that if the target machine doesn't share
> the same directory structure, the binaries won't find their codec modules
> etc.

Yes, path are hardcoded into transcoded binaries. There are some plans
to improve this for future, though.

> The symptom is that I get error messages from the transcode command at
> runtime that suggest it is trying to dynamically load modules:
> 
> transcode]
> warning : 
> /some/where/on/my/build/machine/transcode-1.0.2/lib/transcode/export_im.so:
> cannot open shared object file
[...]
> Is there an answer?

What about playing with --prefix configure option and prefix/DESTDIR makefile
variable? Combininb both should solve your issues.

Best regards,

-- 
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