[Om-synth] Re: patchage & libjack

[Loki Davison]

> >
> > Don't worry. I've only just found out the syntax for installing stuff
> where
> > you want it to be installed. ./configure --prefix=/usr  should get
> configure
> > to put it in /usr/lib , rather than letting the default ./configure put it
>
> > in /usr/local . Nigel. (still being assymilated) and I've probably spelt
> that
> > wrong.
>
> If you run a distro with a package system (ie basically every
> distribution in existance except possibly Slackware) DO NOT DO THIS
> unless you really, really, REALLY, know exactly what you're doing.
> You'll break your packaging system and hose your system.
>
> /usr/local exists for a reason
>
> -DR-
>
>


Though as a counter point, i've always installed everything in /usr
not /usr/local and hate the /usr/local thing, and i've never hosed by
system, and dave puts stuff in /usr/local and debian hosed his system
;-)

Loki