OK Dumb question regarding uninstalling libs

[James McDonald]

Tim Wunder wrote:

>On Tuesday 18 March 2003 8:47 am, someone claiming to be Net Llama! wrote:
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>>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.
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>>>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
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>>>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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>I think I'd have tried compiling glib with --prefix=/usr and using 
>checkinstall to make an RPM out of it. Either that, or grabbed a glib SRPM 
>from Mandrake's cooker site.
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>But, short of that, can't you use the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable, 
>setting it to /usr/local/lib? 
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Yes I have put the LD_LIBRARY_PATH env var in... I just was wondering if 
the ./configure script has a preference for how it locates the libs... I 
know it will look in ld_lib_path but doesn't it stop at that or what.

Maybe someone could point me to a good resource for the whole configure 
make aclocal intltool pkg-config process...


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>HTH, 
>Tim
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