Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 13:01:08 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Mark Jayson Alvarez <jay2xra@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Make fails because of missing library but I can see it's there, why??? Message-ID: <20050210210108.GA94407@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20050210084255.63030.qmail@web51606.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20050210084255.63030.qmail@web51606.mail.yahoo.com>
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--5mCyUwZo2JvN/JJP Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 12:42:55AM -0800, Mark Jayson Alvarez wrote: > Hi, > This always happens to me whenever I'm compiling > third party applications. Make fails because it says > that it cannot find a certain library.. and when I try > to search for that file, I usually finds it. For > example, I'm compiling, nagios-plugins but it fails > with this error messages: >=20 > check_ldap.c:31:18: lber.h: No such file or directory > check_ldap.c:32:18: ldap.h: No such file or directory >=20 > but when I run: > # find / -name "ldap.h" -print > /usr/lib/ldap.h > /usr/local/lib/ldap.h > /usr/local/include/ldap.h > noc# find / -name "lber.h" -print > /usr/lib/lber.h > /usr/local/lib/lber.h > /usr/local/include/lber.h >=20 > See.. it's all there! I'm thinking perhaps there's a > way for me to tell a compiler that the system wide > library files are found in that certain directory. >=20 > Any idea?? You need to specify -I and -L with gcc to point to location of files outside the default search path (which is /usr/include and /usr/lib respectively). Kris P.S. You've polluted the base system with those headers (/usr/lib) which may cause you problems later on. --5mCyUwZo2JvN/JJP Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCC8uUWry0BWjoQKURAqioAKClYYNs4ee3/9VdJMQLfLM2i0LsKACfQQtv mkhTQ5pXLiaxOzr8S1c9A0E= =zQ9i -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --5mCyUwZo2JvN/JJP--
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