Hmmmmm, I seem to have resolved this. I de-installed the library and the headers (thankfully no packages depended on those), then again ran a whereis for the shared object, which still listed a 2, one with a ".a" and one with a ".la" extension. I manually removed those, then recompiled and now I get past the error.
That's nice, of course, but I don't understand where this situation came from, how it could be prevented or even how this situation led to that error. Sigh, another case of computers allowing us to quickly perform tasks that -before computers - didn't need to be performed at all. Yours, Kas.
