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Installing a library locally in home directory, but program doesn't recognize it

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I am installing a program on a server as a non-root user. Specifically it is tmux 1.5, but this should apply broadly to all locally installed program in my opinion (I mention the program name in case this problem ends up not being my own error). The program requires me to install some dependent lib…

Error Output

cd $HOME/library/installation/folder
DIR=$HOME/local
./configure --prefix=$DIR 
#... make ... make install

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Fix for: Installing a library locally in home directory, but program doesn't recognize it

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Try re-building libevent using I suspect this will fix your problem because the library will be linked against when building the binary and doesn't need to be searched for at runtime. Alternatively, if you have a need for a dynamically linked libeve…

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