Thanks, Brian, but the problem is I can not execute the /usr/bin/kicq file. It
gives me the following error msg:
[root@localhost /root]# /usr/bin/kicq
/usr/bin/kicq: error in loading shared libraries: /usr/bin/kicq: undefined
symbol: icq_RecvMailExpress
"Brian T. Schellenberger" wrote:
> It's just telling you how to link your program into the libraries,
> but since you don't have a program that you are trying to link in,
> there's really no need to do anything at all.
>
> They should probably add a "if you don't know what I'm talking bout,
> just forget it" line there.
>
> That is, I assume that you are installing the libraries to make some
> other program happy. If so, it should already know how to find them.
>
> On Mon, 27 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> | Hello all,
> |
> | First off, thanks to all who contribute both your time and patience.
> | Without you, choice would become a meaningless concept. I have installed
> | "kicq" on Linux 6.1 (Mandrake). I have completed the "confiqure,"
> | "complile," and "install." I have copied all files to the appropriate
> | directories. I was given this message, copied at the bottom of this
> | mail, and I am a bit uncertain about what it is telling me to do. I can
> | see I need some kind of '"environment variable," and something entered
> | into my "path." Am I to to a "ln," and do I run the link with a switch,
> | "LLIBDIR?" I have been looking at man pages, and I have been back on the
> | kicq page but uncertainty lingers. Any help rendered would be greatly
> | appreciated.
> |
> | Thanks,
> | Craig Woods
> |
> | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> |
> | Libraries have been installed in:
> | /usr/local/lib
> |
> | To link against installed libraries in a given directory, LIBDIR,
> | you must use the `-LLIBDIR' flag during linking.
> |
> | You will also need to do at least one of the following:
> | - add LIBDIR to the `LD_LIBRARY_PATH' environment variable during
> | execution
> | - add LIBDIR to the `LD_RUN_PATH' environment variable
> | during linking
> | - use the `-Wl,--rpath -Wl,LIBDIR' linker flag
> | - have your system administrator add LIBDIR to `/etc/ld.so.conf'
> |
> | See any operating system documentation about shared libraries for more
> | information, such as the ld(1) and ld.so(8) manual pages.
> | ----------------------------------------------------------------
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