[ome-users] Pre-requisite libraries in non-standard location

[Ilya Goldberg]

Usually, its much more efficient to install these libraries in the  
standard locations so that the standard GNU toolchain would know  
where to find them.  Non-vendor additions to unix OSes generally go  
into /usr/local.  If you are using Linux or BSD, these are all  
standard additions that are provided as packages by the OS vendor/ 
distribution (not true for OS X, though OS X "plays nicely" with /usr/ 
local, and has its own GUI OME-installer besides: http:// 
users.openmicroscopy.org.uk/~igg/OME-Installer.dmg).

Unfortunately, there is no convenient way of informing the installer  
where all of these things are.  About the only option is to edit the  
installer code, adding flags to the various configure commands (which  
would have to be done for all the builds, as well as for all the  
library checks).  Although I've never tried it, it might be possible  
to set some environment variables to hint the GNU toolchain where it  
might find things.

-Ilya

On Mar 7, 2006, at 9:57 AM, matthew couchman (JIC) wrote:

> Hi,
>
> i'm having some problems starting the installation of OME. I think it
> may be because although we have the pre-requiste C libraries installed
> they are in a non-standard location. When I try and run install.pl I
> get:
>
> perl install.pl -l
> ----------------------------
>  C Library Dependency Setup
> ----------------------------
>
> (All verbose information logged in /tmp/LibraryTask.log)
>
> Checking libraries
>   \_ libssl 0.9.7 [OK].
>   \_ libpng [NOT INSTALLED].
>   \_ libjpeg [NOT INSTALLED].
>   \_ libtiff [NOT INSTALLED].
>   \_ libgd [NOT INSTALLED].
>   \_ zlib 1.1.4 [OK].
>   \_ libdb_B-Tree 3 [OK].
>   \_ libxml2 2.6.8 [OK].
>   \_ libxsltPlease specify the location of the "xslt-config" binary [q
> to quit]: q
>  [NOT INSTALLED].
>   \_ expat 1.95 [OK].
>   \_ bzlib [NOT INSTALLED].
>
> Although all these libraries are present albeit in different  
> locations.
> How do I point install.pl in the right direction? Or am I barking  
> up the
> wrong tree?
>
> Thanks for your help,
>
> 		Matt.
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