[lttng-dev] [PATCH lttng-ust] Add warning about default prefix and library paths to README

Mathieu Desnoyers mathieu.desnoyers at efficios.com
Wed May 15 02:08:14 EDT 2013


merged, thanks!

Mathieu

* Jérémie Galarneau (jeremie.galarneau at efficios.com) wrote:
> Fixes #467
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jérémie Galarneau <jeremie.galarneau at efficios.com>
> ---
>  README | 5 +++++
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/README b/README
> index 4b3053c..2a335ce 100644
> --- a/README
> +++ b/README
> @@ -52,6 +52,11 @@ INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS:
>    If compiling from the git repository, run ./bootstrap before running
>    the configure script, to generate it.
>  
> +  Note that configure sets '/usr/local' as the default prefix for files it
> +  installs. However, this path is not part of most distributions' default
> +  library path which will cause builds depending on liblttng-ust to fail unless
> +  '-L/usr/local/lib' is added to LDFLAGS. You may provide a custom prefix to
> +  configure by using the --prefix switch.
>  
>  USAGE:
>  
> -- 
> 1.8.2.2
> 
> 
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