have a compile problem

[Net Llama!]

On Tue, 9 Jul 2002, Keith Antoine wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Jul 2002 12:52, Net Llama! wrote:
>
> > Run "ldconfig -v | grep <whatever_lib_you_need>
> >
> > and see if it appears in the output.  If it appears then the problem is
> > not the dynamic loader, its the RPM, or whatever you're trying to
> > build/install.
>
> Well that finds the files fine, so its the tarballs and src rpms that are at
> fault. It seems impossible that it would stuff up so many install, i.e
> Avifile, Mjpegtools, imagemagick and mplayer. It must be something else that
> is at fault on my OS. But what!

I've built just about all of that stuff without too much grief.  So, odds
are your system is putting libraries in very non-standard locations that
the RPMs aren't finding.  So, let's take this one package at a time
(avifile, mjpegtools etc).  Provide the errors that you're seeing, and we
can work from there.

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