problem with configure

[Tristan Matthews]

2012/8/9 Chuck Crisler <ccrisler at mutualink.net>:
> I have been chasing build problems and finally understand the root. I am
> running fedora 16 on a 64bit CPU. When I run ./configure... --prefix=/usr,
> the sudo make install puts the so's into /usr/lib, which basically isn't
> used, fedora uses /usr/lib64 which is where yum installs things, so
> subsequent builds that are based on the version I built fail. If I specify
> --libdir=XXX, configure adds /lib to whatever I specify, so that doesn't
> work. Has anybody addressed this whacky issue?

There's a good summary of the fedora situation here:
http://wingolog.org/archives/2011/03/18/usrlocal-fedora-rpath-foo

A commenter suggests installing in /opt instead:
http://wingolog.org/archives/2011/03/18/usrlocal-fedora-rpath-foo#b2aa29e8a5516533f5fef47109d9ad72d7de9284

HTH,
Tristan

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