trying to install abiword 3, getting abiword 2.8.6??

M. Fioretti mfioretti at nexaima.net
Fri Oct 18 06:28:05 UTC 2013


On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 12:33:31 PM -0500, Kevin Martin wrote:

> > 
> Hmm, I don't even have that 19626 file in .libs.  The entirety of my .libs directory is:
> 
> -rwxrwxr-x 1 500 1000    47055 Oct 17 10:48 abiword
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 500 1000       20 Oct 17 10:48 libabiword-3.0.la -> ../libabiword-3.0.la
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 500 1000     1200 Oct 17 10:48 libabiword-3.0.lai
> -rwxrwxr-x 1 500 1000 51656791 Oct 17 10:48 libabiword-3.0.so
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 500 1000    28232 Oct 17 10:48 libabiword_3.0_la-abi_ver.o
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 500 1000    72024 Oct 17 10:48 libabiword_3.0_la-libabiword.o
> -rwxrwxr-x 1 500 1000    47055 Oct 17 10:49 lt-abiword
> 
> 
> Did you compile as root or sudo by any chance?

yes, I compiled as root (I didn't even realize it when I started: I
had just been doing upgrades and other "root" stuff", then continued
to work in the same terminal...)

anyway, after running that abiword wrapper once as root as reported yesterday:

- my .libs folder is the same as yours (no 19626 file anymore)

- now I can run the wrapper (getting "Abiword 3.0.0") in the about box
  even as normal user

at this point, what I would like to know is why make and "make
install" left me with a brand new binary of the old version (2.8.6) in
/usr/local/bin/ and a wrapper for the right version in the _wrong_
place. Even if I should not have ran make as root, why should
something like this happen?

Confused,
	Marco


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