trying to install abiword 3, getting abiword 2.8.6??

[Kevin Martin]

On 10/18/13 01:28, M. Fioretti wrote:
> 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
> 
So if you redo your "make install" does the binary change in /usr/local/bin?

Kevin