Angus Leeming wrote:
>
> Two questions.
> 1. was the library in usr/local/lib a staticlib, libforms.a, or a shared
> object, libforms.so.
Both are available.
> 2. If it was a .so lib, then does LD_LIBRARY_PATH have a /usr/local/lib entry?
It has now.
I also have used ldconfig as suggested by others. ldconfig sees all the
libraries.
Tried configure again, but the problem remains.
>
> Angus
>
> On Saturday 09 December 2000 11:48, 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.
> >
> > 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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