A program (viewmol) I'm trying to package has some problems finding some db library. It doesn't specify this library explicitly, the makefile just says
viewmol_: $(OBJ) ; cc -o viewmol $(LDFLAGS) $(OBJ) $(LIBRARY) $(LIBS) LIBS is not defined in the makefile, it just has the default values for make. When make is run, this line gets translated to: cc -o viewmol annotate.o [..snip..] zoom.o -L/usr/lib/python1.5/config -L/usr/local/lib -lpython1.5 -ltiff -lGLU -lGL -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lXm -lXp -lXi -lXext -lXt -lX11 -lpthread -ldb -lutil -ldl -lm and then the following error appears: /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -ldb collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[1]: *** [viewmol_] Error 1 Now /usr/lib has a libdb1.so and a libdb2.so, but no libdb.so. There is, however, a libdb.so in /lib (/lib/libdb-2.2.2.so to be precise). libdb1 and libdb are both provided by libc6[-dev]. If I make a symlink at /usr/lib/libdb.so to this library file in /lib, then compilation is successful and the program runs fine. But I shouldn't have to make my own symlinks like that. I could put /lib into /etc/ld.so.config, but is that really the "correct" solution? That won't work for general Debian building of the package. Is the absence of libdb.so in /usr/lib a bug in libc6-dev? What is the proper way to solve this question? Drew -- PGP public key available at http://dparsons.webjump.com/drewskey.txt Fingerprint: A110 EAE1 D7D2 8076 5FE0 EC0A B6CE 7041 6412 4E4A
