side-by-side install weirdness revisited

[Randy Chung]

Damn it, all those hours spent pulling my hair out over this nonsense :P 
  Benny's solution's kind of nifty, though.  It'd be nice and easy if 
distros were to put xfce-stable in a different location, but in the 
meantime it's up to dirty hacks to make it work :/

--

Randy

Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
> hi all,
> 
> every now and then someone wants to install xfce4-cvs into /opt/xfce4-cvs,
> while still keeping xfce4-stable in /usr.  they try it, and it doesn't
> compile properly.  well, actually, it doesn't link properly.  and then they
> come here and ask why, and i say it can't be done, and try to explain why,
> that it has something to do with how libtool finds existing libraries
> and it's a big hassle to get it to work properly.  randy messed around with
> it a bit to find a real fix, but never finished.
> 
> i was reading planet gnome today, and it seems that what i long suspected
> was correct after all: it's a libtool bug!  see here:
> http://www.advogato.org/person/jamesh/diary.html?start=175
> for an explanation.  isn't that the nastiest thing ever?
> 
> 	-b
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