Re: building v2.19.83 - can't find libguile.so.17

[David Kastrup]

Jonas Hahnfeld <address@hidden> writes:

> Am Freitag, den 24.01.2020, 16:45 -0500 schrieb Bric:
>> i am building lilypond-2.19.83 on Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS 
>> 
>> 
>> -pthread -L/usr/local/lib -lguile -lltdl -lgmp -lcrypt -lm -lltdl 
>> 
>> 
>> how can i make lilypond find the shared object?
>
> I just checked and Ubuntu apparently doesn't look for libraries in
> /usr/local/lib (at least on my system). If you want it to, you might
> try export'ing LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib in your shell. This
> *should* work without removing other versions of guile from your
> system.

I have my version of Guile-1.8 installed in a place where Ubuntu will
most certainly not bother looking unless told otherwise

guile-config is supposed to be supplying the required options for
compiling and linking to make it look in the installation place relevant
when guile-config was being installed.

-- 
David Kastrup