Re: [Traverso-devel] compiling from cvs

[Jonatan Liljedahl]

Nicola Döbelin wrote:
>>>> 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
>> ...
> 
> Ah, I didn't know that. But is it sufficient to set it for the compilation, 
> or must it be set before running the application as well, after closing the 
> shell or logging out?

It only needs to be set while running the app...

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