Installing from Source on Ubuntu

[Carsten A. Arnholm]

"Greg Hellings" wrote:
>> I used the --disable-shared option because I could not figure out
>> where to specify the LD_LIBRARY_PATH needed when using shared
>> libraries.
>
> Usually this is in /etc/ld.so.conf -- on Ubuntu 7.04 (I just installed
> it last night on a spare VMWare Fusion machine) that file includes all
> files that are of the mask /etc/ld.so.conf.d/*.conf so I just created
> a new file called /etc/ld.so.conf.d/wxwidgets.conf and put in a single
> line that read /usr/local/lib/ which is where those libraries are
> found.  I then ran 'sudo ldconfig' and that solved the problems.  It
> is common (at least on Ubuntu in my experience, and sometimes on
> Debian and FC as well) to need to add /usr/local/lib to the ld.so.conf
> search.

Hi,

Aha...many thanks for that piece of advice, I will try it! It looks simple 
enough.

Best regards
Carsten A. Arnholm
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