Re: [gtkmm] seg fault

[Neeraj Korde <nkorde umich edu>]

how do u tweak PATH, LD_RUN_PATH, LD_LIBRARAY_PATH and PKG_CONFIG_PATH. I
guess someone shoulf put a note on this issue in the INSTALL file or on
the download page.

Neeraj Korde
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Graduate Student
Mechanical Engineering
University of Michigan
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On Wed, 10 Sep 2003, Christer Palm wrote:

> Neeraj Korde wrote:
> > So i
> > uninstalled using make -n uninstall from the installation directories and
> > installed again using ./configure --prefix=/usr
>
> Oops, I wouldn't have done that if I were you.
>
> This is not a gtkmm-specific issue in any way, but here we go anyway;
>
> When "make install"'ing into /usr you always run the risk of overwriting
> rpm-installed files, which will leave you with an inconsistency between
> the rpm database and the filesystem.
>
> Consequently, I believe that you should never "make install" into /usr.
> Stuff that you build yourself should go into /usr/local, or better yet,
> if the packages are not for all users in the system or if you'd like to
> switch between different versions of a package, into some user data
> directory (like $HOME/local or something).
>
> Personally, I keep the latest gtkmm stuff in /usr/local and the Red Hat
> provided stuff in /usr. Then I tweak PATH, LD_RUN_PATH, LD_LIBRARY_PATH
> and PKG_CONFIG_PATH to put the new stuff in front whenever I want to use
> that.
>
> Not that this _should_ cause the problems you have (I suppose the
> configure prereq checks came out OK), but it still sounds like a likely
> cause.
>
> --
> Christer Palm
>
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