Re: [Om-synth] patchage & libjack

[Dave Robillard]

On Mon, 2005-24-10 at 22:33 +0000, Nigel Henry wrote:
> On Tuesday 25 October 2005 21:59, elgrande wrote:
> > Antonio wrote:
> > >Hi,
> > >
> > >2005/10/25, elgrande <address@hidden>:
> > >[cut]
> > >
> > >>demudi:~# ls -l /usr/local/lib/libjack.so.0*
> > >>lrwxrwxrwx  1 root staff     17 2005-10-25 11:23
> > >>/usr/local/lib/libjack.so.0 -> libjack.so.0.0.23
> > >>-rwxr-xr-x  1 root staff 177778 2005-10-25 11:23
> > >>/usr/local/lib/libjack.so.0.0.23
> > >>demudi:~#
> > >
> > >Why do you have libjack in /usr/local/lib and not in /usr/lib/ where
> > >it should be, installing the libjack0.80.0-dev package?
> >
> > Hmmm.. probably, because I compiled jack myself. (Thats why local...)
> >
> >
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> Don't worry. I've only just found out the syntax for installing stuff where 
> you want it to be installed. ./configure --prefix=/usr  should get configure 
> to put it in /usr/lib , rather than letting the default ./configure put it 
> in /usr/local . Nigel. (still being assymilated) and I've probably spelt that 
> wrong.

If you run a distro with a package system (ie basically every
distribution in existance except possibly Slackware) DO NOT DO THIS
unless you really, really, REALLY, know exactly what you're doing.
You'll break your packaging system and hose your system.

/usr/local exists for a reason

-DR-