Re: address@hidden: dynamic loading of native code modules]

[Joshua Judson Rosen]

On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 03:36:39PM -0500, Rob Browning wrote:
> Andreas Rottmann <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > I think this is not really an issue, since you can ./configure with
> > --prefix=/real/install/prefix, meaning /real/install/prefix is
> > compiled into the library (via #define) and then do 'make install
> > prefix=/stage/dir' without problems, given that in the final
> > installation (using a .deb or .rpm, for instance) the thing is put
> > into /real/install/prefix.
> 
> Actually this won't necessarily work by itself if you're using
> libtool.  In addition to prefix=/stage/dir, you may need to specify
> LIBRARY_PATH=/stage/dir/lib.

Why? Building the package does not involve executing things in /stage/dir....