On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 12:42:55AM -0800, Mark Jayson Alvarez wrote: > Hi, > This always happens to me whenever I'm compiling > third party applications. Make fails because it says > that it cannot find a certain library.. and when I try > to search for that file, I usually finds it. For > example, I'm compiling, nagios-plugins but it fails > with this error messages: > > check_ldap.c:31:18: lber.h: No such file or directory > check_ldap.c:32:18: ldap.h: No such file or directory > > but when I run: > # find / -name "ldap.h" -print > /usr/lib/ldap.h > /usr/local/lib/ldap.h > /usr/local/include/ldap.h > noc# find / -name "lber.h" -print > /usr/lib/lber.h > /usr/local/lib/lber.h > /usr/local/include/lber.h > > See.. it's all there! I'm thinking perhaps there's a > way for me to tell a compiler that the system wide > library files are found in that certain directory. > > Any idea??
You need to specify -I and -L with gcc to point to location of files outside the default search path (which is /usr/include and /usr/lib respectively). Kris P.S. You've polluted the base system with those headers (/usr/lib) which may cause you problems later on.
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