Re: popt Isn't Quite Right

[Andrew Sackville-West <andrew@farwestbilliards.com>]

look in configure and see where it is trying to find popt. maybe its 
looking in the wrong place?

A

Martin McCormick wrote:
> 	I am trying to install some software that needs the popt
> libraries.  A poster on another list said I needed popt-dev which I
> found and installed with no change in the results.  This system has
> had libpopt0 all along and got popt-dev last night with no effect.  A
> little piece of the configure log for that software reads as follows:
>
> configure:21695: checking for main in -lpopt
> configure:21719: g++ -o conftest -g -O2   conftest.cc -lpopt   >&5
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lpopt
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> configure:21725: $? = 1
> configure: failed program was:
> | /* confdefs.h.  */
>
> 	I'm fresh out of popt's and still getting that fatal error.
> This is a sarge distribution.
> Any ideas?
>
> 	Thank you very much.
>
> Martin McCormick WB5AGZ  Stillwater, OK 
> OSU Information Technology Department Network Operations Group
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