On Friday 24 May 2002 12:54 am, you wrote:
> tom barber wrote:
> > im running RH 7.1 and am having great difficulties installing
> > flightgear i compile and install plib with no problems whatsoever that
> > all goes fine.  then try to install simgear and it says it cant find
> > plib.. i have tried numerous versions of both and tried putting plib
> > in various places to no avail.
>
> Random, snobbish nit: If you punctuate your sentences properly, you
> will make it easier for us to understand and help you.  The e e
> cummings thing worked for poetry, but doesn't translate well to email.
> If your shift keys don't work, at least give us some periods to tell
> us where the sentences end. :)
>
> First off, are you sure you have a current version of plib?  The
> current 1.4.2 version works, as does the one from CVS.  Having an
> older one sitting around will cause SimGear to pick it up and fail a
> version test.
>
> If you have the correct version, how are you installing it?  Normally,
> you should simply do this in the plib source directory:
>
>    ./configure && make && make install
>
> Afterward, you should see a new libssg.a (and a bunch of other
> libraries) in /usr/local/lib.  Is that working so far?  One thing to
> check would be to make sure that there is *no* libssg.a file in
> /usr/lib or /lib or /usr/X11R6/lib.
>
> Now, in the SimGear source directory, you should be able to do exactly
> the same thing:
>
>    ./configure && make && make install
>
> And it should find plib normally and compile.  If this fails for you,
> try posting the exact error message you get to the list.
>
> Andy

Right in a nutshell....
/usr/include is in my path
I have run ldconfig
I have got plib version 1.4.2
I am trying to compile Simgear-0.0.16
The libplib* libraries are in /usr/lib/
The headers are in /usr/include
and the error message is just that it can't find plib
So why not?

Thanks again
Tom

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