Re: [GnomeMeeting-list] Building pwlib/openh323 : need to keep source directories for using the libs? (PWLIBDIR/OPENH323DIR issue)

[Damien Sandras <dsandras seconix com>]

Le jeudi 14 avril 2005 à 14:42 +0200, Vincent Rubiolo a écrit :
> Hello Damien,
> 
> Thanks for your help. See my comments inline.
> 
> Damien Sandras wrote:
> [...]
> >>The problem is that I don't want to have them in the standard ~/pwlib 
> >>and ~/openh323 directories. As told in the docs, I appropriately set the 
> >>PWLIBDIR and OPENH323DIR variables but this always fails when 
> >>configuring either package.
> >
> > That's not needed (see the GnomeMeeting FAQ).
> It seems it is. Here is the configure error I get after having 
> configured, built and installed pwlib as you advised:

ptlib-config should return the path to use.


> [...]
> OpenH323 version is 1.15.3
> checking for 
> /folk/vrubiolo/Archives/openh323-1.15.3/../pwlib/version.h... no
> checking for /folk/vrubiolo/pwlib/include/ptlib.h... no
> checking for /usr/local/include/ptlib.h... no
> checking for /usr/include/ptlib.h... no
> Cannot find pwlib - please install or set PWLIBDIR and try again
> [...]
> 
> (/folk/vrubiolo/Archives/openh323-1.15.3' is my source tree)
> 
> I configured pwlib with the following flags :
> $ ./configure --prefix=/folk/vrubiolo/InstalledProgs/pwlib-1.8.4/ 
> --enable-plugins
> 
> >>I suspect the problem comes from the fact that you must keep your source 
> >>_and_ installation directories for the libraries to work; this is not 
> >>however clear at all in the FAQ : the gnomemeeting one says to --prefix 
> >>in /usr, which I can't and the pwlib/openh323 docs are very scarce on 
> >>the matter.
> > 
> > 
> > That's not correct.
> > 
> > But you have to do something like this :
> > ./configure --prefix=/usr
> > make
> > make install
> This is what I did. It fails with the abovementioned message. I think 
> this is because it expects the library to be installed in /usr/lib, 
> which I don't want and cannot anyway (not root access).

It shouldn't. However, there is perhaps a bug.

> > 
> > for both OPENH323 and PWLIB. --enable-plugins is also required for
> > PWLIB.
> True.
> > 
> > 
> > Then GnomeMeeting will compile cleanly, even if you remove the source
> > directories.
> I believe you. I suspect the problem is in pwlib/openh323 and not in 
> gnomemeeting.
> 
> Vincent
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