xfwm problem?

[Nikolas Arend]

Vincent Groenewold wrote:
> Mmm, yes, solved it again. This time it was the xfce-setting-show 
> program itself, compiled against an older library. This way xfce 4.4 
> is like unwrapping with christmas, really nice. :) And I get to know 
> more about the workings of xfce on the go, also nice. Why doesn't a 
> re-compilation of packages replace files? That would've saved a lot of 
> time.
>
Compiling doesn't replace anything. Installing does, but only files that 
were installed under the same prefix. For libraries you also have to run 
/sbin/ldconfig with a proper /etc/ld.so.conf to have them found correctly.
Maybe you used different prefix's and now the old stuff is found before 
the new because of the respective entries in your PATH variable. 
Honestly, I rarely see anybody having so much trouble with an xfce 
installation ;-)

Nick.