Re: Problem with gmc

[Jeroen Benckhuijsen <jeroen benck demon nl>]

"Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero" wrote:
> 
> >I know there exist links form foo.so to foo.so.2 (so.2 is the real file,
> >.so the link). However , the foo.so.2 file does not exist. It was not
> >installed on my system, only the foo.a file exists.
> 
> Did you installed by hand or via RPMs? If so, check that the RPM is right,
> first getting the RPM package of the existant file (rpm -qf libext2fs.a),
> then checking it fully (rpm -V package). After my lastest experiences with
> some RPMS, it could be that the RPM is wrong (does not carry all that should
> be, or deletes data, or does not run the right install scripts).
> 
> For example, Imlib has the following file under /usr/lib (RH distro, using
> Helix packages, IIRC):
> -rw-r--r--   1 root     root      1050200 May 23 21:19 libImlib.a
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root          679 May 23 21:19 libImlib.la*
> lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           17 Jun 29 01:46 libImlib.so ->
> libImlib.so.1.9.8*
> lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           17 Jun 29 01:46 libImlib.so.1 ->
> libImlib.so.1.9.8*
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root       494856 May 23 21:19 libImlib.so.1.9.8*
> 
> libImlib.a:        current ar archive
> libImlib.la:       English text
> libImlib.so:       symbolic link to libImlib.so.1.9.8
> libImlib.so.1:     symbolic link to libImlib.so.1.9.8
> libImlib.so.1.9.8: ELF 32-bit LSB shared object, Intel 80386, version 1, not
> stripped
> 
> You see that two are symlinks, one is a true lib, the "English text" are
> instructions for the libtool program, and the ar achive is that, an archive
> having the lib data. From some man and info readings, it seem you have to
> use libtool & ldconfig to get all right.
> 
> If you are installing from source, you should know how to do it, so please
> follow all the steps, I doubt any INSTALL is wrong these days. If using
> RPMs, I would check it and complain if wrong, or reinstall if you deleted
> some files. :]
> 
> GSR
> 
> 

I've check the rpm, but it simply doesn't provide that file. Isn't there
a way to create it?

Jeroen