Hello,

I am relatively new to Linux. I have encountered problems but it always seemed like the solution to them was only a Google search away. But this one has me stumped. I can't find anyone out there with the same problem (a first for me).

grip is a cd ripping program for GNOME that is fairly popular and comes with a lot of distros, including mine. But, the rpm version only supports id3v1. The grip website explains that you must compile grip yourself with the id3lib to enable id3v2 support. Sounded easy enough.

I located and compiled id3lib, installed it. Then I downloaded the grip source and ran configure it. It complained with the following warning:

checking for library containing ID3Tag_Link... no
configure: WARNING: id3lib not found - disabling id3v2 support

I understand that compilers/linkers only search where they are told to search for libraries but I was unable to figure out how to see where configure was searching and how to add the /usr/local/bin directory, which is where id3lib installed itself to.

How can I make configure find id3lib?
Or, if it's easier, can I install id3lib do a different place?

Any ideas, suggestions, would be much appreciated.
(I'm using FC3 at the moment, if that matters.)

I have this same problem with a couple other applications. My default Slackware installation includes the latest version of id3lib (3.8.3), but I downloaded the source and installed it /usr/local anyway when the problem occurred, though nothing was solved.

Any ideas what is going on?