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 _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users
