Re: ld finds some libraries, but not others.

2012-01-22 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Thu, 2011-12-15 at 09:24 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 12/15/2011 09:06 AM, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: A build is failing with the error cannot findlibrary for libraries that are, in fact present on the system. I made a very simple test bed, consisting of the empty file conftest.c,

Re: ld finds some libraries, but not others.

2012-01-22 Thread suvayu ali
On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 23:48, Jonathan Ryshpan jonr...@pacbell.net wrote: Is there any convenient way to install all the *-devel packages matching libraries on the system, or do I just have to install them one by one as links fail? If you are simply building a newer version of a package

ld finds some libraries, but not others.

2011-12-15 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
A build is failing with the error cannot find library for libraries that are, in fact present on the system. I made a very simple test bed, consisting of the empty file conftest.c, which I attempt to compile and link with various libraries. All the libraries are in /usr/lib64. Sometimes the

Re: ld finds some libraries, but not others.

2011-12-15 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 12/15/2011 09:06 AM, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: A build is failing with the error cannot findlibrary for libraries that are, in fact present on the system. I made a very simple test bed, consisting of the empty file conftest.c, which I attempt to compile and link with various libraries. All

ld finds some libraries, but not others (REVISED)

2011-12-15 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
A build is failing with the error cannot find library for libraries that are, in fact present on the system. I made a very simple test bed, consisting of the empty file conftest.c, which I attempt to compile and link with various libraries. All the libraries are in /usr/lib64. Sometimes the

Re: ld finds some libraries, but not others (REVISED)

2011-12-15 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Thu, 15 Dec 2011 00:31:26 -0800, JR (Jonathan) wrote: A build is failing with the error cannot find library for libraries that are, in fact present on the system. They aren't. The test bed is invalid. Linker option -lwhatever needs expects to find a libwhatever.so file or symlink. Those