From b7ce18ac2d8d6c1baa446b23e3136845c8431e5c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?utf8?q?J=C3=A9r=C3=A9mie=20Galarneau?= Date: Wed, 15 May 2013 08:07:06 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Add warning about default prefix and library paths to README MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Fixes #467 Signed-off-by: Jérémie Galarneau Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers --- README | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/README b/README index 4b3053c8..2a335cec 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -52,6 +52,11 @@ INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS: If compiling from the git repository, run ./bootstrap before running the configure script, to generate it. + Note that configure sets '/usr/local' as the default prefix for files it + installs. However, this path is not part of most distributions' default + library path which will cause builds depending on liblttng-ust to fail unless + '-L/usr/local/lib' is added to LDFLAGS. You may provide a custom prefix to + configure by using the --prefix switch. USAGE: -- 2.34.1