find libraries

[Klaus-Peter Schrage]

Rick Sivernell wrote:
> All
> 
>   I have moved my desktop machine from genttoo, unable to get things just to run
> propely, to Suse 9.0. I am trying to build some programs, Eterm and scite and
> others, b ut ./configure is not finding some of the required libs, yes I went and
> got them, built them and most go in /usr/lib, some are in /usr/local/lib. the
> ld.so.conf has these directories in them and the ldconfg -v | grep lbast* finds
> the lib in /usr/local/lib. What eles do i need to done to get other programs to
> see my new libs. I am trying to build all code insttead of rpm. On getting xfce4
> I have the tarballs but is their an easy way to build the many tarballs?

A thing often forgotten (by me): When you compile a program from source, 
say xxx.tar.gz, which needs libyyy, it's usually not sufficient to have 
the package libyyy.rpm installed, but also libyyy-devel.rpm which many 
distros don't install by default.
So I have made it my habit to install the -devel counterpart to any new 
lib, even if it's not needed at first sight.
Klaus