Re: Newbie question

[Matthew Woehlke <mw_triad at users dot sourceforge dot net>]

Takatsugu Kobayashi wrote:
> I migrated from windows to Fedora6 linux a few months ago, and am still 
> learning to make the best out of this fantastic OS....

Welcome aboard!

> I just installed GSL for my statistical research, but I installed it on 
> a different folder than the one I wa supposed to. I should have 
> installed /usr/include directory rather than /usr/local/include. So I 
> should specify the path to this usr/local/inlcude/gsl everytime I run 
> C/C++.

I wouldn't recommend that... packages put things in /usr, whereas things 
you built yourself default to /usr/local unless told otherwise. Keeping 
this separation has two positive effects: you can tell what is 
source-built and what isn't, and updating packages doesn't nuke things 
that have been source-built (ok, possibly a disadvantage, but more 
predictable).

> This is very simple newbie question, but how to specify the path in the 
> process of ./configure, make, make install etc? I could just copy and 
> paste all the files in the gsl directory in /usr/local/include to 
> /usr/include by the chmod command....

/usr/local/include should be searched by default, you should never have 
to specify it. If the problem is the 'gsl' you could create symlinks in 
/usr/local/include (or even /usr/include) to /usr/local/include/gsl/*, 
but I wouldn't copy/move files.

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Matthew
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