Re: [hylafax-users] Compiling Hylafax in RetHat 8.0

[Joey Officer <linux@martinapparatus.com>]

hmm.. if /usr/local/lib and /usr/lib are empty, then there aren't any
libraries installed.  That is very unusual.  Assuming you installed from
a redhat cd (or even from a nfs/ftp share) you can install the necessary
libraries that go with redhat 8 from the cd.  Just mount it and do a
directory search for tiff.  This is a typical 'which came first, the
chicken or the egg?' hunt because you will probably need other libraries
that go with .tiff.  It will tell you , and ultimately you'll find the
libraries needed.  After you have installed (from RPM is easiest here),
you'll need to run a program called 'ldconfig', run that as root, and
then try to compile hylafax again.

'lib' is a directory on your system, not a binary executable.  It should
be where all you libraries are stored.  To further explain, most linux
installs assume that you are a administrator of some sort, or a
developer, and as a developer you need to code, which is why most linux
distros comes with a compiler, libraries, optimizers, and tons of
documentation to make your life as a devloper easier.  The problem
sometimes is that the linux distro takes too much for granted and
assumes to much of newer users...

First check your libraries, it sounds like they aren't installed, you'll
have to fix that, then try to recompile the hylafax.

joey

On Wed, 2002-10-16 at 05:37, Thomas Hecker wrote:
> Hi Joey,
> 
> at first, thanks for your advice. So i tried to compile it, but...
> I'm sure, the library are installed in /usr/lib/ but the script can't
> find them.
> 
> The output:
> 
> -----8<-----------------------------------------
> 
> ... checking TIFF library version
> 
> Missing TIFF Library.
> 
> Compilation of the following test program failed:
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> #include "tiffio.h"
> main()
> {
>     printf( "header_ver=%d lib_ver=%s", TIFFLIB_VERSION,
> TIFFGetVersion() );
>     exit(0);
> }
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> 
> TIFFINC=/usr/local/include
> LIBTIFF=-L/usr/local/lib -ltiff
> 
> Verify that you have the TIFFINC and LIBTIFF configuration parameters
> set correctly for your system (see above) and that any environment
> variables are setup that are needed to locate a libtiff DSO at runtime
> (e.g. LD_LIBRARY_PATH). Also be sure that any relative pathnames are
> made relative to the top of the build area.
> 
> --8<------------------------------
> 
> It seems to me, the script needs an executable called "lib" but there is
> no in my system. only an empty dir /usr/local/lib. /usr/local/include is
> empty too. What the scripts search there? To what I have to set them?
> 
> Many thanks to you!
> Thomas Hecker
> 
> PS: Sorry for my bad English :)
> 


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