openbsd 3.6 installation from stable source (0.1.0.15)

[loki tiwaz]

have you tried running ldd on the built binaries to see where they are 
looking?

i'd say that they are looking first in a place where an old version is 
already installed. maybe you built the old version previously in an 
overlaying library search path.

This is a problem that you never encounter when you just install them 
directly to the root. Unless you are producing a binary distribution package 
you should never need to do this - and even if you are, most methods of 
doing this (apart from slack, which is simple tar archives) have means of 
pulling a package together from its live installed location... well, gentoo 
does anyway (qpkg) i have a few gripes with gentoo's ways but by and large 
it is better than anything else out there for ease of software management.


>From: poncenby smythe <smythe at poncenby.plus.com>
>Reply-To: or-talk at freehaven.net
>To: or-talk at freehaven.net
>Subject: openbsd 3.6 installation from stable source (0.1.0.15)
>Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2005 21:50:22 +0000
>
>dear list,
>
>i first installed libevent 1.1a using:
>./configure --prefix=/thisdir
>make
>sudo make install
>
>no errors occured.
>
>i then installed tor using:
>
>./configure --includedir=/thisdir/include --libdir=/thisdir/lib
>make
>sudo make install
>
>no errors occured.
>
>then when executing tor it complains that i am using an old version  of 
>libevent and tor will be buggy.
>
>I think the problem is that I have never really understood how to  compile 
>source packages with certain libraries/includes that are not  in standard 
>paths.
>
>apologies for such a newbie question.
>
>poncenby

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