[debbugs-tracker] bug#26240: closed (Guile doesn't search for libraries installed in /usr/lib64)

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--- Begin Message --- Subject: Guile doesn't search for libraries installed in /usr/lib64 Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2017 16:59:27 +0000

Hi,

I'm trying to build Guile 2.2.0 on CentOS 7.3 with GCC 4.8.5. During configure, I see the following error message:

checking for libltdl... no

configure: error: GNU libltdl (Libtool) not found, see README.

I do have libtool installed on my system:

$ which libtool

/usr/bin/libtool

$ libtool --version

libtool (GNU libtool) 2.4.2

Written by Gordon Matzigkeit <address@hidden>, 1996

Copyright (C) 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO

warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

I'm passing the following option to configure:

$ ./configure --with-libltdl-prefix=/usr

but it still doesn't pick up libltdl. Based on the following help message:

$ ./configure --help

...

  --with-libltdl-prefix[=DIR]  search for libltdl in DIR/include and DIR/lib

I believe the problem is that CentOS installs libltdl to /usr/lib64 instead of /usr/lib:

$ ls -l /usr/lib64/libltdl.so.7*

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    16 Feb 27 11:19 /usr/lib64/libltdl.so.7 -> libltdl.so.7.3.0

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 41248 Feb 16  2016 /usr/lib64/libltdl.so.7.3.0

Do you have any suggestions as to how I can get Guile to pick up libraries installed in /usr/lib64?

Adam J. Stewart

Assistant Systems Administrator

Laboratory Computing Resource Center

Computing, Environment and Life Sciences

Argonne National Laboratory

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> On Fri 24 Mar 2017 17:59, "Stewart, Adam James" <address@hidden> writes:
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> > $ ls -l /usr/lib64/libltdl.so.7*
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Feb 27 11:19 /usr/lib64/libltdl.so.7 -> 
> > libltdl.so.7.3.0
> > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 41248 Feb 16 2016 /usr/lib64/libltdl.so.7.3.0
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> > Do you have any suggestions as to how I can get Guile to pick up libraries 
> > installed in /usr/lib64?
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> I believe this indicates that you don't have libltdl development
> packages installed.  Check on your distro for "ltdl-dev" or similar
> packages.  Normally if your distro installs things to /usr/lib64, then
> it adds it to all the normal search paths.
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> Andy
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