Thanks, I think that did it! Do you know if I had configured something wrong, or is this a known 'issue' with mandrake 8, or...?? Thanks! Russell A Hoffman On Sat, 5 May 2001, hooli wrote: > On Sat, 5 May 2001 07:46, you wrote: > > I'm not sure if this is Mandrake specific, but I've never had this problem > > before using 8.0, so hopefully someone will know what's going > > on. Whenever I try to compile several programs (including a simple gnome > > app that I wrote as part of a tutorial), during the compile I get this > > error: > > > > /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -ldb1 > > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status > > make: *** [gnomewin] Error 1 > > > > Suggestion, - as root > try editing /etc/ld.so.conf > and make sure '/usr/lib' is entered. > > then make a symbolic link at the prompt: > ln -s /usr/lib/libdb1.so.2 /usr/lib/libdb1.so > > finally at the prompt: > ldconfig > to update. > > Good Luck! > J > > >
