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[Spencer Ogden <spencero AT mail.utexas.edu>]

spencer@home:~$ cat /etc/ld.so.conf
/usr/local/lib
/usr/X11R6/lib
/usr/lib
/lib
spencer@home:~$ locate libX11
/usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so
/usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6
/usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6.2
spencer@home:~$ ld -lX11
ld: cannot find -lX11


I thought that would work as well, but it seems ld.so.conf only deals with 
runtime library loading. The configure script of gtk+2 fails because it 
can find libX11. I assume it is doing something like `ld -lX11`, which 
doesn't seem to be influenced by ld.so.conf.

Spencer

On Monday 24 February 2003 10:58 pm, Dufflebunk wrote:
> Add the directory to /etc/ld.so.conf and then run ldconfig
>
> On Mon, 2003-02-24 at 23:33, Spencer Ogden wrote:
> > Sorry if this should go to the spell-list or bug zillla but it seems
> > like it is more of a system setup issue.
> >
> > I am trying to compile gtk+2 and it cannot find libX11.so. This file
> > exists in '/usr/X11R6/lib/' but apparently ld does not search there by
> > default, doing `ld -lX11` results in an error saying the library could
> > not be found. If this is the correct behavior then how is gtk+2
> > supposed to compile. If this behavior can be changed I have not founf
> > out how to in the man pages. Am I missing something?
> >
> > Spencer
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