mental@...3... wrote:
Quoting aaron@...749...:
It was suggested that I just install libgc6.4 into /usr. That would be an easy way out (and what I remember doing last time).
But
I thought I'd hang on and see if there was any good lessons
waiting
for me.
Personally, I'd not invite pain by bypassing the package system so lightly. ^_-
I'm on Gentoo now, and I just grabbed the libgc6.4 .debs from Debian and installed those. Works fine.
You will probably want to 'make uninstall' your copy from /usr/local first, though. Way back when I was starting with libgc I got myself in trouble neglecting to do that...
Yeah I was afraid of installing to /usr on my nice new clean system. But I installed to /usr/local, edited /etc/ld.so.conf and ran ldconfig. That made things work (or seems to have made things work -- I'm still waiting for it to finish compiling). The reason I was building my own libgc is that Mike suggested I build libgc with apbuild for portability reasons. What are the pros/cons of what I have done?
Aaron Spike