give me fish you feed me for a day..teach me 2 fish u feed me 4ver!

2001-09-07 Thread jdls
Greetings, Some questions; 1. is there a resource out there somewhere that can clearly explain ld and ld related problems and how to fix them? I sometimes build from source and most of the time I get stuck with ld related problems and I have to bother a lot of people on how to resolve it instead

Re: give me fish you feed me for a day..teach me 2 fish u feed me 4ver!

2001-09-07 Thread David Nusinow
On Thursday 06 September 2001 04:16 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. is there a resource out there somewhere that can clearly explain ld and ld related problems and how to fix them? I sometimes build from source and most of the time I get stuck with ld related problems and I have to bother a

Re: give me fish you feed me for a day..teach me 2 fish u feed me 4ver!

2001-09-07 Thread David Nusinow
Oh, and I forgot to mention *why* you need the libperl-dev package. In the spirit of the question you asked (teach me so I can do for myself) Debian takes the very interesting (and IMHO very smart) approach to packaging libraries by dividing them in to user and developer packages. If

Re: give me fish you feed me for a day..teach me 2 fish u feed me 4ver!

2001-09-07 Thread Erik Steffl
subject, good subject is the key to good answers... [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. is there a resource out there somewhere that can clearly explain ld and ld related problems and how to fix them? I sometimes build from source and most of the time I get stuck with ld related problems and I have

Re: give me fish you feed me for a day..teach me 2 fish u feed me 4ver!

2001-09-07 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 11:16:03PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings, Some questions; 1. is there a resource out there somewhere that can clearly explain ld and ld related problems and how to fix them? I sometimes build from source and most of the time I get stuck with ld related

Re: give me fish you feed me for a day..teach me 2 fish u feed me 4ver!

2001-09-07 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 11:25:30PM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: subject, good subject is the key to good answers... [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. is there a resource out there somewhere that can clearly explain ld and ld related problems and how to fix them? I sometimes build from source and

Re: give me fish you feed me for a day..teach me 2 fish u feed me 4ver!

2001-09-07 Thread John Patton
On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 11:16:03PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings, Some questions; 1. is there a resource out there somewhere that can clearly explain ld and ld related problems and how to fix them? I sometimes build from source and most of the time I get stuck with ld related

Re: give me fish you feed me for a day..teach me 2 fish u feed me 4ver!

2001-09-07 Thread John Patton
On Debian, at least, the library usually needed for compilation is the static one (libfoo.a) as the shared libraries are stripped making symbol resolution difficult. The shared library will still be used for the runtime unless there isn't one to begin with or static linking is specified.

Re: give me fish you feed me for a day..teach me 2 fish u feed me 4ver!

2001-09-07 Thread Donna.
heh. I like that subject line. Here's another request for teaching assist. I'm a SCSI/CLI oldtimer who, in recent months, has gotten into video capture. This is like trying to learn 10 different new languages at the same time: IDE intrinsics (huge space is cheaper this way), sound recording and

Re: give me fish you feed me for a day..teach me 2 fish u feed me 4ver!

2001-09-07 Thread jdls
Thanks to all you guys who responded to my questions...I believe I am on my way to being an: expert- one who knows more and more about less and less of something..until he knows absolutely everything about nothing... -Dr. Richard A. Eckhart