On Fri, 20 Sep 1996 16:46:52 +1000 Mr Stuart Lamble ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> I've recently had problems linking programs non-statically with (e.g.) the > X11 libraries, etc. Static libraries are fine, shared have problems. Upon > investigation, and discussion with a friend, it appears that ld cannot find > files of the form: > > libfoo.so.1 > libfoo.so.1.2.3 > > etc. - there has to be a symlink libfoo.so for libfoo to be found. Upon > creating such symlinks, everything worked fine. (well, once I got rid of > the /lib/libc.so => /lib/libc.so.4 link, that is :-) Oops. :) This is because the development packages aren't installed. Install libfoo-dev to get the symlinks, the include files, etc... Phil.
