I have compiled and installed the csoap library.

the problem is when I tried to compile another program
which requires csoap library, the ./configure output
is like this

checking dependency style of gcc... (cached) gcc3
fgsl_lib is true
fbz2_lib is true
fzlib_lib is true
fxml2_lib is true
fnanohttp_lib is false
fcsoap_lib is
fgdbm_lib is false
fngd is false
fdl_lib is true
ua_optimize is true
host is i686-pc-linux-gnu
build is i686-pc-linux-gnu

so fcsoap_lib is neither false or true, what does this mean?
I have libcsoap.pc under both /usr/lib/pkgconfig
and /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig (I copied it).

since i don't know what software you're trying to install, my first bet is that compiled the wrong version of the library required by the software. check the documentation for the software for the proper library version. post what program you're trying to install.

I am sure the version is correct (csoap = 1.0.4).

I am trying to compile and install

libcomplearn_0.9.7.orig.tar.gz (923K, October 1, 2006)
from http://www.complearn.org/download.html

This library is not necessary for compiling libcomplearn,
but without it libcomplearn will lose some function. So
even if there is no csoap installed, I can still compile
libcomplearn. but I want it with csoap.

try using:

this will rebind your dynamic libraries.
read the man page ... try to list libraries installed to make sure that the library is installed correctly

from complearn directory, try to do :

and see if ./configure will let you install without checking dependencies. what dist are you using? if you're using redhat i would try to install the library from a binary rpm package. i would try to get the library using yum, yast or apt-get depending on the distribution. if you have more questions, POST

1. I ran ldconfig
2. I checked ./configure --help, it says nothing about avoiding checking dependencies.
3. My dist is FC5.

I weird thing is that I am sure I have these library installed: nanohttp, csoap, gdbm,

especially gdbm, it existed origignally there under /usr,
I can find the header files and lib filed but I can not
find the *.pc file. But ./configure just can not find
these libs, even if I specify the option like --with-gdbm=/usr.

i downloaded libcomplearn tar, extracted it and did:

and it came with some helpful options:

and :

it looks that the libcomplearn package is looking for the csoap somewhere else from you installed it. you need to find out where you installed csoap and point the ./configre script to it.

you migth try disabling dependency tracking but some features in your program might not work:

Thanks you very much, especially you tried it by yourself.

about csoap, yes, I tried to compile with option of --with-csoap=/usr/local. but that does not help.

I am sorry I did not notice the disable-dependency option, but as I said in the previous post, without csoap, the function I really want will also be disabled. so I don't really want to disable-dependency. csoap is optional, which means even without it, complearn can be compiled successfully.

I am trying to contact the developer of complearn to see if I can get more help. They asked me to send them the config.log file after I ran ./configure with options. They find some problem but did not get the solution yet, Here is the problem they found,


so I followed his suggestion to compile the test program of the libnanohttp, it is fine. By the way, all of the librarys are installed either under /usr or /usr/local which I have specified in the options --with-thelib=/usr/local or /usr