Re: libtool and /usr/local/lib

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, Geoff wrote:
> > For
> > example, the user was not aware that there was a libxml2
> > under the /usr/X11R6 tree as well as under the /usr/lib
> > tree.  LibMagick was apparently built and tested with the
> > libxml2 under /usr/X11R6.
>
> I may be exposing more ignorance here, but that is not what
> I meant.  At least in my case it seems (am I wrong?), that
> LibMagick was built with the libxml2 which was
> originally under /usr/lib. Thus my

This does seem wrong.  As the author of ImageMagick's configure 
script, I can tell you that the configure script uses settings from 
whatever xml2-config script is discovered via the executable search 
path so it is quite easy for a maintainer's environment to pick up and 
use the wrong libxml2.  Feel free to blame that on bad design. :-(

This is worth reporting as a bug to your ImageMagick package 
maintainer.

Bob
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