Saturday, October 18, 2008

configure, make, make install

1. PATH
Many applications on Linux is dependent on the PATH,

for example, pkgconfig
need to export PKG_PATH_CONFIG = /usr/local/lib:/usr/lib to have lib packages in both /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig and /usr/lib/pkgconfig to know the library.

2. updatedb
Use locate to check if the system had the correct path.
use updatedb to update the path

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