openslide on Ubuntu

[Benjamin Gilbert]

On 02/22/2013 11:52 PM, Sriram Somanchi wrote:
> Yes I install them from source code and I keep the default option which is
> /usr/local/ for all the packages.

Older versions of those libraries are all shipped with Ubuntu and used 
by a great many packages on a typical system.  It's not a good idea to 
just build your own replacements and add them to the library search 
path.  The other software on your system was never tested with the newer 
versions of those libraries.

On any reasonably modern Linux system, you shouldn't need to build any 
of the libraries that OpenSlide depends on.  Just install their -dev 
packages and build OpenSlide.

--Benjamin Gilbert