[MEncoder-users] picking up x264 library

[The Wanderer]

On 07/27/2009 10:43 AM, Matyas wrote:

> Grozdan wrote:
> 
>> make install of x264 always puts files in /usr/local if during
>> configure you did not specify a different install path with
>> --prefix
> 
> Thanks!  I actually looked for something like that for x264, must
> have missed it.  That will probably work best in the future when I
> specify /usr as installation dir.

If you install x264 via a package management system which installs into
/usr (as most of them probably will), and then you overwrite that by
installing a non-packaged version into /usr, you may well end up
breaking packages which depend on x264 and think that an older version
is installed. As I understand it, that's why so many library (and no few
non-library) build systems default to installing into /usr/local instead
of /usr - so that you can install self-compiled libraries without
messing with the underlying system, if need be.

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