I had this weird experience a week ago,,, I was compiling a sound application and it over wrote a part of my libc in some way and caused my xmms that I used to play old radio shows on my second audio card to fail... I didn't notice it until I tried to use xmms the other day... now I got to figure out which one did the deed... that should be great fun <heh> awww well... all in a days work <heh> vince On Thursday 14 December 2006 01:04, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > Vince Werber wrote: > > I keep a log of what libs I install but for the life of me... I can't > > remember what I do have without the log... so... I guess I do it too! > > <heh> > > Quite honstly, i think almost nobody should be installing libraries > from source. Rather, I think people should install the pre-packaged > library from their distribution. > > The only exception to the above, is developers actually working on > the library and the hopefully rare cases where a developer needs to > test a bleedign edge version of a library that the distribution > has not yet packaged. > > As a library author myself, the only two libraries on my system that > were installed from source are libsndfile and libsamplerate. > > Erik
