The default for installations from source has always been /usr/local. At least for packages using autoconf/automake. That's why I assume that your libs in /usr are handled by a package management system such as rpm or apt. And I suggest instead of compiling from source, you simply update those packages.
But if I now install 2.4.0 over top of the old stuff at /usr, isn't that going to break things?
gtk+-2.4, glib-2.4 and pango-1.4 are binary compatible with the respective gtk+-2.2, glib-2.2 and pango-1.2 libraries, so nothing should break after an update.
I installed glib-2.4 to /usr, put /usr/lib above /usr/local/lib in /etc/ld.so.conf, ran ldconfig, then tried to install pango-1.4.0. But it dies during configure with this:
checking for GLIB - version >= 2.4.0... no *** Could not run GLIB test program, checking why... *** The test program failed to compile or link. See the file config.log for the *** exact error that occured. This usually means GLIB is incorrectly installed. configure: error: *** Glib 2.4.0 or better is required. The latest version of *** Glib is always available from ftp://ftp.gtk.org/.
Any ideas how to fix that?
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