[pulseaudio-discuss] installing header files

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Patrick Shirkey at 08/08/09 12:16 did gyre and gimble:
> What is the correct prefix for installing the 64 bit compile? 

There is no right answer here. Personally when I build my own package of 
*anything* I pick a custom prefix for it so as not to interfere with my 
system packages... Usually I'll checkout/clone into a new folder e.g.
/home/colin/Development/foobar

And when I build/configure I'll typically use: 
/home/colin/Development/foobar/build and when I pick a prefix, I usually 
choose: /home/colin/Development/foobar/prefix.

When I want to run said app, I just set LD_LIBRARY_PATH and PATH 
appropriately and knock myself out.

Distro provided packages are typically held in a /usr prefix with libdir 
sometimes set to /usr/lib64 for 64 bit systems (that's how we do it on 
Mandriva but not sure about other distros).

> I have the 
> libs in /usr/lib64. Where should the include files go?

Well, I think you're trying to manually copy things about here which 
doesn't sound like  a very wise thing to do to be honest. I'd either use 
a custom prefix that wont clobber your system packages or I'd just build 
the source as an RPM that you can easily remove/upgrade etc later.

Col


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