On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 01:48:41PM +0200, Andre Juffer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> when running the configure script of lyx-1.1.5fix2 on Redhat 7, I
> encounter the following message
>
> ** Cannot find libforms or libxforms. Please check that the xforms
> library
> is correctly installed on your system.
>
> This was despite of the fact that I have used the option
> --with-extra-prefix=/usr/local, since the libraries are in
> /usr/local/lib, while the forms.h file is in /usr/local/include. The
> script did find forms.h, but did not see the libraries in
> /usr/local/lib. These files were placed there by `make install' of the
> bxform-088.tar.gz distribution I took from
> ftp.lyx.org/pub/xforms/linux/elf (should I use the other one,
> bxforms-088-glibc.tgz, maybe?). After copying manually the libraries
> into the
> /usr/lib directory, the script still was not able to locate the
> libraries.
Did you run ldconfig after that?
The prefered way is "ldconfig -v" so that you can see what libraries are
found in your system. You need to be root to run this command.
The directories searched are configured at another place, /etc/ld.so.conf
in my system.
> I had this problem before with Slackware 7.1, but there the problem
> disappaered after copying the libraries to the /usr/lib directory.
>
> Ideas?
>
> Thanks!
>
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Jos�
