[vox-tech] how to find the self-installed libs?

[Jeff Newmiller]

Configure scripts usually require -dev packages in order to work. 

"Hai Yi" <yihai2004 at gmail.com> wrote:

>Hello All:
>
>i've downloaded and installed libx264 from web since the one with
>ubuntu (9.10) is lower in version. I can see that lib has been
>installed on /usr/local/lib:
>
>hai at zodiac:~/downloads/x264$ ls -ltr /usr/local/lib/libx264*
>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 993618 2010-05-31 12:50 /usr/local/lib/libx264.a
>
>However it seems that it is NOT picked up by ffmpeg configuration:
>
>hai at zodiac:~/ffmpeg$ ./configure --mandir=/usr/local/ffmpeg/share/man
>--enable-gpl --enable-nonfree --enable-avfilter --enable-x11grab
>--enable-libfaac --enable-libfaad --enable-libfaadbin --enable-libgsm
>--enable-libtheora --enable-libx264 --enable-libxvid --enable-zlib
>ERROR: libx264 not found
>
>
>nor shown when using
>
>dpkg --get-selections | grep libx264
>
>
>How can I do to make this lib awared to the system?
>
>Thanks,
>Hai
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