Re: interdependancies between libraries

[Kevin Ryde]

> On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 01:50:57PM +1100, Brian May wrote:
> > Oh, another observation: installing the libraries in their non-final
> > location (as required for Debian packaging tools, probably Redhat too)
> > simply does not work, as shown below. I think some of the required -L
> > options to the linker might be missing.
> > 
> > <snipped of failed relink>

Some Debian libtool packages (eg. libgtk1.2) seem to get away with

        ./configure --prefix=/usr

but then overriding that for the install

        make prefix=`pwd`/debian/tmp/usr install