Re: gEDA-user: building 20030901 geda released

[Mario Klebsch <mario-at-NOSPAMklebsch_dot_de>]

Hi!

Am Montag, 08.09.03 um 04:55 Uhr schrieb Ales Hvezda:
> 	libstroke is a non-gEDA/gaf specific library, so I don't search
> for it in any user accessable directories.  In the ./configure script
> I assume that it is installed as a system library.  Perhaps this is a 
> bug.

It depends on how you define 'system library'. IMHO you should not 
assume, that it is installed in /lib or /usr/lib and give the user an 
option to specify additional locations, where to look for this library.

>> doing export LIBS="-L/home/jeanlucwoody/gEda/target/lib"
>> and then ./configure --prefix=$HOME/gEda/target again works.
>
> 	As you discovered this is the right way to get libraries into
> the search path for the ./configure script.

Although this may work with every autoconfigure generates ./configure, 
it iseems a bit ncommon to me, having build autoconfig controlled 
projects for almost a decade.

73, Mario
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