Re: installation question: xvid

On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 09:41:12PM +0000, jon cashman wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm a newbie and have two questions.
> 
> Am I suppose to do something about them??
> 
> Also I have already installed xvidcore-0.9.1 from www.xvid.org (the 
> latest). When I do find, I have
> /usr/local/lib/libxvidcore.so
> /usr/local/lib/libxvidcore.a
> I've added "/usr/local/lib/" to my path but I still receive the following 
> msg when I do "./configure":
> 
> <blah,blah,blah>
> checking for xvid.h usability... yes
> checking for xvid.h presence... yes
> checking for xvid.h... yes
> checking for xvid_init in -lxvidcore... no
> configure: WARNING: Could not run XviD test program, checking why...
> *** The test program compiled, but did not run. This usually means
> *** that the run-time linker is not finding XviD or finding the wrong
> *** version of XviD. If it is not finding XviD, you'll need to set your
> *** LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable, or edit /etc/ld/so.conf to point
> *** to the installed location  Also, make sure you have run ldconfig if that
> *** is required on your system
> <blah,blah,blah>
> 
> I still have the problem after setting
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib/
> and running ldconfig.
> 
> What should I do? I'm a newbie. So please insult me and be explicit! Thanks!

well as you wish :) - you should probaly start to read man pages 
for programs like ldconfig and other programs
 - it might be quite useful.
 But to make it simplier you should now that you have to
 use LD_LIBRARY_PATH with 'export' - i.e.
 
 export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib
 
 however you should probably rather modify this file:
 /etc/ld.so.conf
 and prepend this path into this file
 (I'd have suggest to put into the head of this file
 libs are searched in this order)
 
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