No doubt there's a real answer, which it's trying to tell you.
But for my own part, I just solve problems like this by doing a symlink:
ln -s /usr/local/lib/*.so /usr/lib
/.
n Mon, 27 Mar 2000, you wrote:
| Thanks, Brian, but the problem is I can not execute the /usr/bin/kicq file. It
| gives me the following error msg:
|
| [root@localhost /root]# /usr/bin/kicq
| /usr/bin/kicq: error in loading shared libraries: /usr/bin/kicq: undefined
| symbol: icq_RecvMailExpress
|
|
|
| "Brian T. Schellenberger" wrote:
|
| > It's just telling you how to link your program into the libraries,
| > but since you don't have a program that you are trying to link in,
| > there's really no need to do anything at all.
| >
| > They should probably add a "if you don't know what I'm talking bout,
| > just forget it" line there.
| >
| > That is, I assume that you are installing the libraries to make some
| > other program happy. If so, it should already know how to find them.
| >
| > On Mon, 27 Mar 2000, you wrote:
| > | Hello all,
| > |
| > | First off, thanks to all who contribute both your time and patience.
| > | Without you, choice would become a meaningless concept. I have installed
| > | "kicq" on Linux 6.1 (Mandrake). I have completed the "confiqure,"
| > | "complile," and "install." I have copied all files to the appropriate
| > | directories. I was given this message, copied at the bottom of this
| > | mail, and I am a bit uncertain about what it is telling me to do. I can
| > | see I need some kind of '"environment variable," and something entered
| > | into my "path." Am I to to a "ln," and do I run the link with a switch,
| > | "LLIBDIR?" I have been looking at man pages, and I have been back on the
| > | kicq page but uncertainty lingers. Any help rendered would be greatly
| > | appreciated.
| > |
| > | Thanks,
| > | Craig Woods
| > |
| > | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| > |
| > | Libraries have been installed in:
| > | /usr/local/lib
| > |
| > | To link against installed libraries in a given directory, LIBDIR,
| > | you must use the `-LLIBDIR' flag during linking.
| > |
| > | You will also need to do at least one of the following:
| > | - add LIBDIR to the `LD_LIBRARY_PATH' environment variable during
| > | execution
| > | - add LIBDIR to the `LD_RUN_PATH' environment variable
| > | during linking
| > | - use the `-Wl,--rpath -Wl,LIBDIR' linker flag
| > | - have your system administrator add LIBDIR to `/etc/ld.so.conf'
| > |
| > | See any operating system documentation about shared libraries for more
| > | information, such as the ld(1) and ld.so(8) manual pages.
| > | ----------------------------------------------------------------
| > --
| > "Brian, the man from babbleon-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
| > Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org
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