installing libs from source

[Brandon Rambo]

well I would like to argue the merits of a good tarball... one of the
reasons that you have to run the ./configure scrips is to check for
dependencies you can also tell it where you would like it installed if you
do not want to install it in the default location... you can also usually
enable and disable some features within that program... also you don't have
to look for a special rpm for the kernel that you are running or your
systems arch... also if you happened to install those dependencies that the
program needs in a different location you can also specify where those
dependencies are located... where as an rpm only looks in the default
location and can only see things that you have installed via rpm until after
you reboot then most of the time it can also see what software that you have
installed via tarball.

also i have searched the WWW and its really just a whole lot of jargon that
I am having trouble understating

Brandon


On 12/20/06, Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2006-12-20 at 14:28 +0300, Brandon Rambo wrote:
> > ok I may just be over looking something but I'm trying to install a
> > lib required by this other program that I have downloaded... and i
> > complie the lib (./configure, make, make install) and then use libtool
> > to cp it to /usr/lib and when I do the ./configure on the other
> > program it still says that i dont have it... am i missing something
>
> RPM knows what you've installed via RPM (whether that being directly, or
> something else, like YUM, using RPM for you).  When you try to install a
> package that has a dependency on a certain file, it doesn't look to see
> whether that file actually is on your system (which might well be a good
> thing, that technique works on other operating systems), it looks in the
> RPM database (of what's installed).
>
> If you can install something via RPM, you'll have less issues.  Whether
> that be through a prepared RPM file, or you creating your own of the
> thing you're installing.  Sorry, *I* don't have any handy hints for how
> to do that, but there are on the WWW.
>
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