Re: compile problem

[Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net>]

On Mon, 17 Mar 1997, David Puryear wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> When I try to compile a program with -l*(anything from /usr/X11R6/lib), I get
> no such a file or directory error. I have /usr/X11R6/lib in my /etc/ld.so.conf,
> and I have ran ldconfig -v. I'm out of ideas as to what I need to do in order to
> make this error message go away. So far, I have just link files from
> /usr/X11R6/lib/* to /usr/lib/, but this is so ugly.
> 
> Thanks for any help,
> David
> I have ran ldconfig -v. I'm running ideas as to what I need to do in order
> to make this error message go away. So far, I have just link files from
> /usr/X11R6/lib/* to /usr/lib/, but this so ugly
> 
Make sure that the primary so links (libxxx.so) point to the actual
library (libxxx.so.y.z) rather than the intermediate link (libxxx.so.y).
This should fix the compile. The gcc linker seems to not be able to follow
repetative links farther than one level.

Luck,

Dwarf
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