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[Barry Smith <petsc-maint@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

  Yes, of course. But we would still have a problem if the user moved the
dynamic libraries. 

  I'm going to look for a way that does not require the hardwiring.

  BTW: When I do 

harley % gtk-config --prefix
/usr

put I have to assume that is the prefix set with --prefix; so what if the 
package system dumped the gtk elsewhere (say in /usr/local) then this prefix
information would be worthless. Do you commonly have a fix-up script at the
end of the package installer that fixes this stuff?

   Barry


On Tue, 5 Jul 2005, Faheem Mitha wrote:

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> 
> On Tue, 5 Jul 2005, Faheem Mitha wrote:
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> > 
> > On Tue, 5 Jul 2005, Barry Smith wrote:
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> > >  How should we get the information to compile into the libraries? If we
> > > cannot use --prefix do we have to make up our own option name
> > > --with-install-directory=...?
> 
> One possibility is that you could have two compile time options. One could be
> for where the files are actually installed, and the other one for what
> location is hardwired into the files. This would give the necessary
> flexibility.
> 
>                                                                  Faheem.
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