Re: OS-sympathetic installation (fwd)

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Feb 14, 2001, David Lee <address@hidden> wrote:

> As I say, I'm floundering, and may be overlooking something obvious.

For one, the fact that libtool may have to relink libraries and/or
executables at installation time.  Of course, you might include all
the dependence libraries and object-files in the package, so as to be
able to do the relinking yourself, but...  As I had suggested before,
it's far easier to just install in a separate directory and have the
package manager collect them.  This will work on *most* systems.  On
some, it's necessary to have the libraries already installed in the
installation directory before you can correctly link executables or
other libraries dependent on them.  In this case, installing in a
separate directory just won't work, or will appear to work but will
actually look for libraries in the wrong place.

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