Making stuff in the right places

[sshaikh]

Hi,

If I make things by downloading source (something I believe is common with Linux), I find that binaries are placed in /usr/local/lib.

However when I try to make further things which need these libraries, they expect them in /usr/lib.

Apparently I can change LD_LIBRARY_PATH, but Google says that bad things will happen if I do that. I've resorted to copying the built files to /user/lib, but that hardly seems like the right thing to do (unless it is). Most of the time I'm not even sure if I'm copying the right files!

Is there a "proper" way of dealing with this issue? It happens each time I try to make stuff, but right now I'm asking with reference to memcached and libevent.

[Keith Hedger]

The /usr/lib and /usr/local/lib folders are for library's so you may have to run
sudo ldconfig
to update your system, you can also force libs to go to /usr/lib by adding the prefix command to configure ie
./configure --prefix=/usr/lib

but you shouldn't really need to do this.
Also check any installation instructions that come with the source code.

[sshaikh]

The /usr/lib and /usr/local/lib folders are for library's so you may have to run
sudo ldconfig
to update your system,

This worked perfectly. Thanks!

[Keith Hedger]

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