Re: Uncompilable sources - SOLVED

[csj <csj@mindgate.net>]

On Saturday 10 February 2001 01:37, Oliver Elphick wrote:
> csj wrote:
>   >The short of it: A number of debian sources won't compile
>   > because of the following problem:
>   >
>   >usr/bin/ld: cannot find -ldb
>
>  ...
>
>   >debian:/# dpkg -L libdb2-dev | grep "libdb2.so"
>   >/usr/lib/libdb2.so
>   >
>   >What am I missing?
>
> You need a symbolic link:
>
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           15 Oct  1 03:09
> /usr/lib/libdb.so -> libdb2.so.2.7.7

THAT fixed it. Thanks!

Now for my compiling spree...