Re: more about FC_5.

On 17/05/06 00:32, Maz The Northener wrote:
> Hi dee Ho again!
> 
> Thank's to Ian's patch, I managed to compile comedi drivers for my
> FC_5 kernel. Also comedilib seemed to compile without problems. (Or of
> course there were problems, but those were not caused by the
> software... :p )
> 
> Then I tried to ran my measurement program I did earlier.. Well, of
> course it failed, since I did not notice the kcomedilib was a module
> to load too... Anyways, after lots of error, and even more trial, I
> managed to run the program... Except calibration. I found out the
> calibration is now it's own module, and got it from CVS repository.
> However autogen.sh for comedi_calibrate fails. I get following erreor:
> 
> checking for comedi_open in -lcomedi... no
> configure: error: Failed to find libcomedi.
> 
> so looks like AC_CHECK_LIB fails. Any advieces? (I be the solution is
> something simple, but my Linux experience just is not strong enough :)
> )
> 
> Oh, just to give some more info, I (even though I did not have
> slightest idea what would be the correct solution) did try to add
> comedilib installation directory ( seems to be /usr/local/lib ) to the
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH (actually, I had to do that before the measuring
> program I did earlier decided to compile) and when it did not help I
> added it into $path, and finally created symbolic link in /usr/lib to
> each file in /usr/local/lib... No avail. I also tried to look for
> suitable args to give to autogen, but I did not find the correct
> one...
> 
> Errmmm.. Sorry for writing this kind of a novel, but it's the night
> and extra amount of coffee... (See? I do always have my excuses
> prepared).
> 
> Anyways, any ideas anyone?

Do you have /usr/local/lib listed in your /etc/ld.so.conf file?  If not,
stick it in there and run 'ldconfig'.

Having said that, I just tried to build comedi_calibrate for the first
time and got loads of compiler errors (but at least I got past the
configure stage).

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