On Mon, 17 Aug 2009, Brandon Tate wrote:

> 1. As far as the usr/local stuff goes, I'm not sure what in there is being
> used. I didn't build this application, I'm just charged with getting the
> curl stuff working. Can I just rename the curl files to have a different
> extension? Will that effectively remove them?

Yes.

> 2. Crashing/Dying means that the applications just stops. No error is
> thrown, nothing happens at all. It just stops. Not sure how gdb works. I
> don't have a gdb command on the server so I'm not even sure if it's
> installed.

Then you should consider adding it. Or perhaps you can first, if you still
experience the hang after making sure all your work is using the libs you
intend (by clearing up the double versions), run strace on the app to figure
out what it does when it hangs.

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