Re: GOT IT!!! Build to Ubuntu (Debian) system

Daniel O'Donnell <[email protected]> was heard to say:

> Got it, and in less that 12 hours.
>

Thanks for the comprehensive writeup which other Ubuntu/Debian users certainly
will appreciate. However, I think you stumbled over a few Unix details which
are simpler to resolve than you did.

> * Symlink the libdbi libraries (installed in /usr/local/lib) to /usr/lib
> (where refdb will look for them):
>

This is a fairly rude workaround. The problem here is that ld on Ubuntu (and on
Debian afaik) is set up to look for libraries in /usr/lib. This is set in
ld.so.conf and works fine as long as you use packages. If you build
autotools-based programs from source, they default to /usr/local, that is,
libraries end up in /usr/local/lib. There are two things you can do:

1) you can teach ld to look into /usr/local/lib for libraries as well. Edit
/etc/ld.so.conf and run ldconfig as root

2) you can configure libdbi and libdbi-drivers to install in /usr instead of in
/usr/local. Just pass --prefix=/usr to ./configure to achieve this.

1) is preferable if you tend to build from sources fairly often.

regards,
Markus

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