Re: gEDA-user: still problems with building gEDA

[sdb@xxxxxxxxxx (Stuart Brorson)]

Manfred --

It depends upon which library you are going to load.  In general,
system libraries go into /usr/lib or /usr/local/lib.  It usually
doesn't matter which one.  Then, when you compile gEDA, the
./configure script will find the libs in either library.

One complication:  Sometimes, certain GNU packages expect to sit in
the same library with other GNU packages.  Therefore, you should check
to see where SuSE puts libraries by default, and try to install your
stuff there. 

When you build a library (or any program for that matter), you can say 
"./configure --prefix=/usr" to put it in the /usr library, or
"./configure --prefix=/anywhere/you/want" to put it wherever you want.

Stuart


> 
> Hello,
> some days ago i told about the problems  while building gEDA under Suse 9.0.
>  Now  I would try to do following:
> Unpack and install the librarys which i got from this Homepage - and try 
> to build again.
> 
> But I got still one problem:
> 
> How do I install the libraries?
>  From where does the system know, that and where the library does exist?
> 
> with best regards
> Manfred
>