Re: [GD-DEVEL] How to upgrade?

On 2/9/07, Lars Hecking <[email protected]> wrote:
> Pierre writes:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On 2/8/07, Esteban Flores <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >Hi...
> > >I have gd 1.x.x already instaled on linux but i need gd 2.x.x and I don't
> > >want to delete my first gd (cause im getting troubles with one app
> > >previously created with modules on gd 1.x.x)
> > >
> > >It's any way to keep my installation and install the other lib (like 2on1
> > >libs)
> >
> > It should be possible to have both installed if you use different name
> > for the so/a files. As far as I remember that's what some linux
> > distributions do.
>
>  That should not be necessary.
>
>  If you build from source, configure with a customised prefix, e.g.
>  --prefix=$HOME. Then, when compiling other, gd using applications,
>  make sure that the directory containing the newer gdlib-config (in this
>  case, $HOME/bin), comes first in PATH. That should pretty much do it.

Nice,  I was unsure about the behavior of LD at execution time. If it
uses the one found during the compilation or the first found in the LD
path.

--Pierre