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          "Nick Black" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I'm trying to build libxml-ruby on Fedora Core 6, but get the following 
> errors:
> 
>  bash-3.1# ruby extconf.rb --with-zlib-dir=/usr/lib64/
> --with-zlib-include=/usr/include/bzlib.h --with-mlib=/lib/libm.so.6
> checking for socket() in -lsocket... no
> checking for gethostbyname() in -lnsl... no
> checking for atan() in -l/lib/libm.so.6... no
> checking for atan() in -l/lib/libm.so.6... no
>  extconf failure: need libm
> *** extconf.rb failed ***
> Could not create Makefile due to some reason, probably lack of
> necessary libraries and/or headers.  Check the mkmf.log file for more
> details.  You may need configuration options.
> 
> 
> I've tried with all the different libm directories I can find using #
> locate libm (/lib /lib64 /usr/lib /usr/lib64)- but I keep getting this
> error.  I guess this is a problem with some compiler flags, but don't
> really know where to start.

Make sure you've got the glibc-devel package installed - that should
be all you need to build against libm on Fedora.

Tom

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Tom Hughes ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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