Broken symlinks in '/' dir after compile and checkinstall
 

So with alot of software (seem to be alot of libs) a bunch of broken symlinks show up in '/' after compiling and installing with checkinstall. I usually just './configure --prefix=/usr && make' then a 'checkinstall -SyA i686' as root. Can somebody please tell me what I'm doing wrong...

Thanks.

You are doing nothing wrong. It 's checkinstall fault. You can saftly remove all installed
files you see in the top /. I guess Makefiles that do libs symlinks are hard to read for
checkinstall

But there is a long time, I do see this thing happen, did you upgrade to the latest version ?

what version are you using? I had this problem for awhile but haven't had it for awhile ( I started grabbing the checkinstall out of the /extra directory on slack mirrors).

You're right. I grabbed it from /extra and it doesn't do it anymore. I guess it was a wrong build because it's the same version.

Thanks guys.