[Xastir] compiling on SuSE 9.1

[Rick Green]

On Tue, 3 Aug 2004, Rick Green wrote:

> Oops! In what looks like the final link of all the modules into the xastir
> executable, gcc complained with 'cannot find -llcms'
>
Update:
  I _do_ have the liblcms package installed.  `locate lcms` tells me:
/usr/lib/liblcms.so.1
/usr/lib/liblcms.so.1.0.12
/usr/share/liblcms

  The gcc invocation that err'd out did have '-L/usr/lib' but not
'-L/usr/share'.  I must admit I'm not a gcc guru, but I suspect it's not
looking in the right place?  Possibly a slight change to the makefile will
expand the search?

Grasping at straws, I search yast a few more times, and come up with
curl-devel and eazy, who's descriptions lead me to believe they may
help...

A search of ARCHIVES.gz on the DVD yields no mention of 'shapelib'
'libshape'(other than a filter script for gnome's dia utility), so it
looks like I'll have to go elsewhere for those.  ANybody
know a source for those libraries ported to the 2.6 kernel?

I re-run ./configure.  It doesn't discover any new features it can
support.
I edit the Makefile, adding '-L/usr/share' to the LDFLAGS= line.

I re-run 'make', and get the same error.  The gcc invocation which err'd
out did NOT have the '-L/usr/share' parameter I had added to the Makefile,
even though the other two -L options seemed to come from that LDFLAGS
line.  But then, I did say that I'm not a gcc guru... (A search for
LDFLAGS yields no references lower down in the file, but maybe it's
referenced in another Makefile in a lower directory?)  I browse the
Makefile, and see a comment about not editing this file, but instead
editing config.status.  I search that file for LDFLAGS, and add
'-L/usr/share' to that line.  WHen I re-run `make`, the gcc invocatopn
does include the '-L/usr/share' option, but it STILL err's out with the
same "cannot find -llcms" message.

  So I'm left sitting with these open questions:

1) Where can I find the Shapelib libraries for the 2.6 kernel?
2) Do I have a version problem with my ImageMagick libraries.  They are
there, but don't seem to support 'WriteImage'.  I have version 5.5.7-220
3) I have liblcms-1.12-55 installed, but the loader isn't finding it. How
can I point it in the right direction, or what do I move into what
directory?


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Rick Green

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