From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 12 9:32:20 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from server.baldwin.cx (jobaldwi.campus.vt.edu [198.82.67.146]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1821B14DF0 for ; Sun, 12 Dec 1999 09:32:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from john.baldwin.cx (john [10.0.0.2]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA57285; Sun, 12 Dec 1999 12:32:15 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-Id: <199912121732.MAA57285@server.baldwin.cx> X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <003101bf446a$7f4bcf00$230a0cd0@SHURIKEN> Date: Sun, 12 Dec 1999 12:32:15 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin To: Marc Wandschneider Subject: RE: Where'd my shared lib go? Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 12-Dec-99 Marc Wandschneider wrote: > > > So, I recently build giflib-4.0.1 on my machine. I ran > > ./configure --enable-shared > > to ensure shared libs are built, and sure enough, libgif.so.5.0 was built > and installed to /usr/local/lib. A symlink from libgif.so was also put. What version of FreeBSD are you using? If it is 3.0 or later, then you are using ELF libraries, which don't use a minor version number. In that case, you should have a file named libgif.so.5 instead of libgif.so.5.0. A bigger question is why you aren't using hte ports system to do this. The ports system goes ahead and handles all the issues like this. If you have the ports system installed, then installing giflib is this easy: # cd /usr/ports/graphics/giflib # make all install This will download the source, build it along with any dependencies it needs, and install it for you. It will also run ldconfig for you to make sure you can use the new library right away. If you don't have the ports system installed, you can install it either using cvsup(1) (see the Handbook) or from /stand/sysinstall -> Configure -> Distributions -> Ports -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message