Re: Conventions for library naming
In foo.debian-mentors, you wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 17, 1999 at 04:08:59PM -0500, Mitch Blevins wrote:
>
> > Are you sure you don't mean that the script is checking for libgmp.so?
> > This is the problem I ran into when I looked at packaging it.
> > Of course you can set up local symlinks, but that is not the answer.
> > I grepped my heart out but could not figure out how to modify their
> > configure script to look for libgmp2.so instead of libgmp.so.
>
> It that's a normal configure script, look in configure.in for something
> like:
>
> AC_CHECK_LIB (gmp2, ...)
>
> and change it; then run autoconf.
Alas, this tactic has been tried... and has failed in its purpose.
If kind sir would download and attempt a compile, his efforts would
be greatly appreciated.
-Mitch
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