OK Dumb question regarding uninstalling libs

[James McDonald]

Net Llama! wrote:

>On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, James McDonald wrote:
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>>OK let's say that I had glib-2.0 installed in the default location of
>>/usr it's the default mandrake 9.0 rpm install.
>>
>>Then I go and download the latest src.tar.gz version and ./configure it
>>with the defaults and install the new version in /usr/local
>>
>>How do I un-install the old version in /usr without breaking all the
>>dependences and have the apps that where looking in /usr/* for the
>>libraries now reference /usr/local....
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>This should be a nonissue, as the dynamic linker (ldd) takes care of this
>stuff.
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Actually my issue which I see now I didn't mention is when I go to 
compile a new piece of software the configure script finds the old libs....

How do I leave the old libs in place and get configure to *only* use the 
new libs? I'm a bit confused as to what is important in the environment 
but it may be just that I was trying to do this @ 1 am in the morning.



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