[Gossip-dev] how to organise librarys ?!

[Martyn Russell]

Charly Caulet wrote:
> Hello to all the list members,

Hi,

> This is my first post. I use Gossip for 6month, and I would like to help
> you by resolving bugs (in the first stage).
> 
> My problem is relating to my distro's library versions. I use GNU/Linux
> Ubuntu6.10, and library are too old to compile Gossip. So I have begun
> to compile svn's versions of each needed library, but it seems not to be
> a good solution (there could be conflicts with my distro's library when
> upgrades).
> Do you think that making a separate chroot for svn gossip version would
> be a better idea ?  Which solution do you personally use ?

The best thing to do is probably use:

$ sudo apt-get build-dep gossip

This should install all the libraries and dependencies that you will
need to build gossip.

After that try building gossip and see how far you get.

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Regards,
Martyn