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

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

Paul Barton-Davis wrote:

>
> ldconfig controls system-wide libraries. because so many people didn't
> like or had problems installing the libraries system wide, my programs
> now come in tarballs that do a local install of the libraries. it
> would be absurd to go around adding appl-specific directories to
> ldconfig (i think so, anyway).
>

Okay, that makes more sense. When I get a lib that I don't want to
install system wide I usually install it in like ~/lib and add that to my
LD_LIBRARY_PATH. I can see that its a mess though, because configure
would still need to know the location of it to test if its there. This is
usually done via a configure script switch like --with-pbd=/home/josh/lib
or something though. How about statically linking the libs?
    Josh