Re: [softwerk-dev] new release, plus "manual": SUCCESS!

[Josh G. <jg...@us...>]

Paul Barton-Davis wrote:

> >  However, when I configured SoftWerk it reported that gtkmmext,
> >guileconfig, and libmidi were all un-sane, so I copied those libs into
> >/usr/lib. Configure reported no errors after that.
>
> ah. got it, maybe. sounds to me as though you don't have
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH set in your normal environment. I try to set it in configure
> so that we don't run into this problem BUT the way I do that assumes
> that its already an environment variable (i.e. i do not specifically
> set it as an environment variable). as a result, if you don't have it
> already set that way, it ends up as a regular shell variable, and is
> not exported to the subprocesses executed within configure ... does
> this seem likely/possible ?
>

Isn't ldconfig supposed to take care of this? I mean like add the path
/usr/local/lib or wherever the libs are installed into the  /etc/ld.so.conf file
(thats where it is on my system), then re-run ldconfig each time new libraries are
installed. I guess setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH might make sense from within
"configure", but it can't control that variable after it exits. Perhaps I'm
mis-understanding the problem.
    Josh