find libraries

[Collins Richey]

On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 16:40:04 +0100, Klaus-Peter Schrage
<kpschrage at gmx.de> wrote:
> 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.

I'm not really a heavy with RPM based distros like SUSE, but I would
think the thing to do with source based products is to get (or make)
an SRPM. The output of this is then a binary that you install with
normal RPM facilities and, thus, there SHOULD be few complaints about
missing libraries.

HTH,

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