From: Jérémie Galarneau <jeremie.galarneau@efficios.com>
Date: Wed, 15 May 2013 06:07:06 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: Add warning about default prefix and library paths to README
X-Git-Tag: v2.2.0-rc3~14
X-Git-Url: https://git.lttng.org./?a=commitdiff_plain;h=b7ce18ac2d8d6c1baa446b23e3136845c8431e5c;p=lttng-ust.git

Add warning about default prefix and library paths to README

Fixes #467

Signed-off-by: Jérémie Galarneau <jeremie.galarneau@efficios.com>
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
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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: