Re: can't find libaries in /lib

[Jason Rennie]

address@hidden said:
> It's a FAQ:   -- to /use/ a library foo, you install a package libfoo.
> -- to /compile/ against library foo, you need to install the matching
>    header package libfoo-dev (or maybe libfoo-devel) 

Thanks for the info.  Any chance a hint could be printed with the 
configure warning/error message?  Here are some diffs that I think would 
help:

address@hidden octave-2.1.43]$ diff -u configure.in configure.in.orig 
--- configure.in        Wed Jan 29 17:54:42 2003
+++ configure.in.orig   Wed Jan 29 17:52:49 2003
@@ -1129,7 +1129,7 @@
 
 if test "$octave_found_termlib" = no; then
   warn_termlibs="I couldn't find -ltermcap, -lterminfo, -lncurses, -lcurses, o\
-r -ltermlib!\nYou may need to install the \"development\" version of one of 
these libraries."
+r -ltermlib!"
   AC_MSG_WARN($warn_termlibs)
 fi
 
address@hidden octave-2.1.43]$ diff -u aclocal.m4 aclocal.m4.orig 
--- aclocal.m4  Wed Jan 29 17:55:46 2003
+++ aclocal.m4.orig     Wed Jan 29 17:55:02 2003
@@ -625,7 +625,7 @@
       LIBS="$LIBREADLINE $LIBS"
       AC_DEFINE(USE_READLINE, 1, [Define to use the readline library.])
     ], [
-      AC_MSG_WARN([I need GNU Readline 4.2 or later\nYou may need to install 
the \"development\" version of readline.])
+      AC_MSG_WARN([I need GNU Readline 4.2 or later])
       AC_MSG_ERROR([this is fatal unless you specify --disable-readline])
     ])
   fi

Jason D. M. Rennie
MIT AI Lab
address@hidden
(617) 253-5339
http://www.ai.mit.edu/~jrennie/




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