Hi, I have what seems to be a simple problem, but I keep banging my head trying to fix it:

When I compile the xfce terminal program, It works fine until I get this:
libtool: link: cannot find the library `/usr/local/lib/libxfcegui4.la'

The reason it can't find the library, is because it is actually in /usr/lib/libxfcegui4.la
I tried to then configure it with:
./configure LDFLAGS=-L/usr/lib

But it gave the same error when i compiled

I think it should just be some sort of env variable I have to set or something, but I can't figure it out.
Help would be appreciated.

-pinkey

Edit /etc/ld.so.conf

Put /usr/local/lib to the file. Save. Quit. Then /sbin/ldconfig as root.

Thanks for the reply.

I tried it, and it still does not work. Even though I appended /usr/lib to the ld.so.config file, the compile is still looking for the library in /usr/local/lib when I want it to look for the library in /usr/lib
urg.

-Pinkey

maybe it is a little bit to late, but if it helps (i found this thread because i had the same problem today):

just do a

it works because those libs get statically linked with the application you create, after building and installing Terminal you could remove both links (EDIT; thanks to foo_bar_foo)

it's worth pointing out here i think that *.la files are not libraries at all
but rather plain text files with configuration information in them.
they contain hard coded path names to lib dependancies and what not

the real question is why is the .la file and the libs are in /usr/local while the other libs that depend on it and are linked to it think it's in /usr

there is a fundamental install screwup there somewhere

sorry my fault

but the libs and the la files aren't in /usr/local ... but the libtool skript shipping with this xfce terminal program wants to search it right there ...

also the to the libs corresponding pkgconfig files are pointing to /usr ... and allmost all other applications i have compiled so far for xfce did not look for this libs in /usr/local ...

it is some kind of specific for this xfce terminal program

i get it now and the link solution seems perfect
it mght also work to do
./configure --prefix=/usr

fine :-)

( ./configure --prefix=/usr did not work for me :-) )