From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Vincent Legoll Subject: installing libraries Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2016 14:36:11 +0200 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50690) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bQZgc-00080K-Q6 for help-guix@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Jul 2016 08:36:15 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bQZga-0005UW-Qr for help-guix@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Jul 2016 08:36:13 -0400 Received: from mail-qk0-x22e.google.com ([2607:f8b0:400d:c09::22e]:34794) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bQZga-0005UM-MY for help-guix@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Jul 2016 08:36:12 -0400 Received: by mail-qk0-x22e.google.com with SMTP id o67so99788573qke.1 for ; Fri, 22 Jul 2016 05:36:12 -0700 (PDT) List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-guix-bounces+gcggh-help-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Help-Guix" To: help-guix@gnu.org Hello (again), I'm trying to do a kernel "make menuconfig", so I have to install some packages, make, gcc, binutils, ncurses, glibc, linux-libre-headers... but ncurses despite being installed, is not picked up... vince@guixsd ~/tmp/build-linux$ ls $LIBRARY_PATH/*ncurses* /home/vince/.guix-profile/lib/libncurses.a /home/vince/.guix-profile/lib/libncurses++w.a /home/vince/.guix-profile/lib/libncursesw.so.6 /home/vince/.guix-profile/lib/libncurses.so /home/vince/.guix-profile/lib/libncursesw.a /home/vince/.guix-profile/lib/libncursesw.so.6.0 /home/vince/.guix-profile/lib/libncurses.so.6 /home/vince/.guix-profile/lib/libncursesw.so I've found that doing: vince@guixsd ~/tmp/build-linux$ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LIBRARY_PATH will make it work... Is that the "right" way to do it ? I seem to remember that the export LIBPATH line was hinted from some package install (maybe gcc), so I put it in .bashrc... -- Vincent Legoll