xffm fails to build on Fedora Core 3 test 3

[Randy Chung]

It's actually not the runtime environment, but the linker that breaks 
things.  It's come up on the ML before (I remember having a discussion 
about it a month or few back), where dbh's library path gets included 
before LD_FLAGS.  This breaks in systems where your install path for 
Xfce-stable and dbh are the same, but Xfce-beta is different, e.g. on my 
system:

Xfce-stable + dbh are in /usr
Xfce-beta is in /usr/local

because some programs then link against the libxfce4util library you 
have in /usr/lib instead of the shiny new one you just installed in 
/usr/local/lib.  There might be some other libraries that are 
incorrectly linked against as well, but this is the one I've had the 
most run-ins with.

It took some hacking of the configure scripts to get it to do what I 
wanted it to, but I'm not sure it's exactly a good solution.  Basically, 
what I've done is manually add my /usr/local prefix to the auto* 
scripts, so that the correct libxfce* libraries are linked in.  This 
works on my system because the only thing I have in /usr/local is 
Xfce-beta, so there's no worry about accidentally linking in a broken 
dbh that's in /usr/local/ instead of a working one from /usr.  It's kind 
of a mess and hard for me to describe without taking up more space, but 
hopefully this kind of gets the idea across :)

--

Randy

Jasper Huijsmans wrote:
  > export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="${prefix}/lib/pkgconfig:${PKGCONFIG_PATH}"
> export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="${prefix}/lib:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}"
> export PATH="${prefix}/bin:${PATH}"
> 
> That has worked just fine for me.
> 
>     Jasper
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