On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 10:48:34AM +0200, scc wrote:
Hi everyone.
I removed the 7.1 libtiff rpm and installed it from source instead as I needed features which the rpm didn't have. It now lives in /usr/local/lib. I had to recompile my source versions of stuff that used it like the gimp and scanner sane stuff. But what if I didn't have the source? Could I get a 7.1 rpm to use it for example? Or must the rpm have its libraries where the disto puts them? What I want is that the rpm's which need (in my case) libtiff, to use my source compiled libs rather than theirs. Or can't I mix source and rpm's?
I'd think you'd have a lot easier time of it if you just compiled the libtiff with the configure option --prefix=/usr (or whatever the equivalent option might be). That would make it live in /usr/lib instead of /usr/local/lib, and you wouldn't have to recompile everything else. And don't forget to re-run ldconfig. -tara