Re: [Traverso-devel] compiling from cvs

[Jonatan Liljedahl]

Nicola Döbelin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>> thanks both of you guys, update-alternatives and ./cleancompile worked
>> and I was able to compile and install from cvs (sudo checkinstall make
>> install) but the package seems to be missing lots of core bits. I'm
>> wondering whether I need to add some switches or install some more
>> packages?  traverso fails with:
>>
>> $ traverso
>> traverso: error while loading shared libraries: libtraversocore.so.1:
>> cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
> 
> The linker doesn't find the traverso libraries. There are two solutions (I 
> favour the second one):
> 
> 1. You probably don't have an entry "/usr/local/lib" in your /etc/ld.so.conf 
> file. You can simply add this line (without the quotes) to /etc/ld.so.conf. 
> If the file doesn't exists, create a new one. Then run "sudo ldconfig" to 
> update the linker configuration. That's it.
> 
> 2. You can also point the linker to the directory where you compiled 
> traverso. Then you don't even need to "make install". I'm compiling it in 
> /home/nic/development/traverso, so I simply did:
> 
>   sudo echo /home/nic/development/traverso/lib >> /etc/ld.so.conf

I think it's better to keep /etc/ld.so.conf system-wide (no user
specific stuff), you can set LD_LIBRARY_PATH instead:

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/foo/traverso/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
cleancompile
...

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