On 04/03/2010 11:34 AM, John Denker wrote: > On 04/03/2010 10:21 AM, dave perry wrote: > >> I get the following error compiling fgfs. >> >> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lopenal >> >> But /usr/lib64/libopenal.so.0 => libopenal.so.1 => libopenal.so.1.11.753. >> > Note that "libopenal.so" (with no suffix) is not listed. > > >> My .bashrc has the line >> export >> LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib:/usr/lib64:/usr/local/lib:/usr/local/lib64:/usr/local/lib/osgPlugins >> >> so I don't see why ld is not finding -lopenal? >> > As a test (and, probably, a workaround) try installing a symlink > with the name "libopenal.so". > > Thanks John, this worked. > ======================== > > This of course leaves two unanswered questions: > 1) Why is libopenal.so missing from the out-of-the-box system? > 2) Why was its absence not detected during the autoconfigure step? > > I had another problem that I missed. I copied the cvs source from another machine and "configure" for fgfs source did not have "execute" permissions after the copy. I had used an update/compile/install script for SimGear and fgfs and did not notice the permission error for fgfs ./configure. All is running (very fast) now.
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