Re: problem with gnu emacs
On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 10:51:16 +0200, Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.org> said:
> On 2008-08-12 08:43:00 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
>> On 2008-08-12 05:51 +0200, Zach Uram wrote:
>> > When I run emacs I see this error:
>> >
>> > emacs: /usr/local/lib/libpng12.so.0: no version information
>> > available (required by emacs)
>>
>> Try moving that file out of the way. In general, it is not a good
>> idea to install libraries into /usr/local/lib.
> In general, when installing libraries, the goal is to be able to use
> them (in particular by programs compiled by the user). So, the right
> place is /usr/local/lib if they are for all users of the machine, and
> $HOME/lib for the user who installed them.
> Now, if Debian packages are not meant to use external libraries (i.e.
> that do not come from Debian), one may wonder if these Debian packages
> should use a run path.
If you put a shared library in /usr/local/lib which has the same
so name as a library shipped by Debian, but is not binary compatible
with it, you will have problems, sinc the loader loads the incompatible
library, and breaks all packages compiled with the Debian supplied
library.
manoj
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