Re: linking problem

[jdassen@wi.leidenuniv.nl]

On Sun, Apr 12, 1998 at 11:07:02PM -0500, Alex Romosan wrote:
> and the error:
> 
>   /usr/bin/ld: cannot open -lXpm: No such file or directory
>   collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> 
> but the library exists:
> 
> ls -l /usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.so.4*
>    0 lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           14 Apr 12 20:55 /usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.so.4 -> libXpm.so.4.10
>   54 -rw-r--r--   1 root     root        53408 Jan 25 09:33 /usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.so.4.10
> 
> if i replace -lXpm by /usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.so.4 the program links
> fine. does anybody have any idea what's going on here?

"ld" only looks for libXpm.so, not for libXpm.so.version. In Debian,
libfoo.so is part of the libfoo-dev package, not of the libfoo package, as
you need the header files (which are in libfoo-dev) to compile programs
using libfoo. So it looks like you don't have "xpm4g-dev" installed.

HTH,
Ray
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