find libraries

[Rick Sivernell]

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.
> Klaus
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Klaus


   Ah, you are correct, I will remember that and just set root in .bashrc.

cheers

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