On Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 11:45:20AM +0000, Bill Somerville wrote: > but having said that, what is wrong with installing at /usr/local? That is a > normal location for installing packages you have built from sources.
Indeed it is, and installing locally built things in /usr can lead to trouble with your package manager later. But what I've found when distributing my own software (audio, not SDR), is that most user's systems are not set up to look for libraries in /usr/local/lib. So if you install any *.so there, it won't be found. The solution is simple of course, all it takes is to drop a file 'local.conf' containing a single line /usr/local/lib in /etc/ld.so.conf.d. But many users don't know that, and it's also not something an installer is supposed to do. Ciao, -- FA _______________________________________________ wsjt-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel
