Re: ld: cannot find -lsmbclient

[samuel thinkcmd com]

rolf deenen (rdeenen home nl) wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am trying to run install garnome 0.27.1 on a linuxfromscratch-machine. At 
> the moment i am running gnome 2.2, compiled from source but concidering the 
> extraordinous effort it takes to do this i thought of letting garnome do all 
> the work for me. Tough luck though. Trying to compile gnome-vfs-extra it 
> stops with this error: "/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lsmbclient" during "make". 
> I did install samba (and since "./configure" didn't complain it must have 
> been detected). Does anybody have a clue to what the problem may be?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Rolf Deenen
> 
> PS. samba's "make install" didn't copy libsmbclient to /usr/include. I had to 
> do this manually. Perhaps another file didn't get placed in it's correct 
> location?
> PPS. This has been asked before on this list. But it never got an awnser.
> 
Yeah, this is an issue with samba.  For some reason it doesn't copy over
the libsmbclient stuff over upon a `make install`.  I run LFS as well,
and had to copy the file by hand.  Ah well, either way I have a
/usr/lib/libsmbclient.[a|so|so.0], so mine compiled just fine.


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