[Ardour-Dev] Shared objects

[John Anderson]

On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 08:04 +0000, John Emmas wrote:
> Quite by accident this morning, I noticed that I have a folder:-
> 
> /usr/local/lib/ardour2 (with subdirectories called 'engines' and 'surfaces')
> 
> and these 3 folders seem to contain copies of my Ardour dynamic libraries,
> such as libardour.so and libardour_genericmidi.so.  However, they seem to be
> old copies and I'm not sure whether I should be keeping them up to date.
> When I launch Ardour, will it use the dynamic libs compiled by scons (in
> their respective folders) or do I need to be copying them to these other
> folders that I've just discovered?

scons install will copy all the relevant files to either /usr
or /usr/local, depending on what was specified with PREFIX=.

scons --help in the top level ardour source directory will tell you the
current value of PREFIX is.

bye
John