This dies in the configure script right?
Your config.log (?.status) should contain a copy of the little test program
that failed. Look at the end to find it. Then try and make it yourself.
My guess is that the library is found and linked Ok, but that running it dies
because the header file and library version are incompatible. Is the library 0.89 but
the header file 0.88?
Angus
On Saturday 09 December 2000 12:18, Andre Juffer wrote:
> 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!
