[ILUG] Configure script not making sense to me

[Conor Daly]

On Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 02:40:11PM +0100 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, 
Brian Foster thought:
>   | From: Philip Quinlan <philip.quinlan at cs-consultants.com>
>   | Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 11:57:35 +0000
>   |[ ... ] 
>   |  # ./configure
>   | .ALL.GOOD.NEWS.UNTIL
>   | checking for Mix_OpenAudio in -lSDL_mixer... no
>   | configure: error: *** SDL_mixer not found. Visit http://www.libsdl.org and =
>   | get=20
>   | it
>   | BUT
>   | # rpm -ql SDL_mixer
>   | /usr/bin/playmus
>   | /usr/bin/playwave
>   | /usr/lib/libSDL_mixer-1.2.so.0
>   | /usr/lib/libSDL_mixer-1.2.so.0.2.4
>   | /usr/share/doc/packages/SDL_mixer
>   | /usr/share/doc/packages/SDL_mixer/CHANGES
>   | /usr/share/doc/packages/SDL_mixer/COPYING
>   | /usr/share/doc/packages/SDL_mixer/README
>   |[ ... ]
> 
> 
>  yer missing /usr/lib/libSDL_mixer-1.2.so
>  which is what the ld(1) `-l' option (as in
>  `-lSDL_mixer') searches for.
>  I have no idea why you don't have it.
>  it exists on my SUSE 9.1 system:
> 
>     $ rpm -ql SDL_mixer
>     /usr/bin/playmus
>     /usr/bin/playwave
>     /usr/include/SDL/SDL_mixer.h
>     /usr/lib/libSDL_mixer-1.2.so.0
>     /usr/lib/libSDL_mixer-1.2.so.0.2.3
>     /usr/lib/libSDL_mixer.a
>     /usr/lib/libSDL_mixer.la
>     /usr/lib/libSDL_mixer.so

What did you do about this?  Try an:

cd /usr/lib
ln -s libSDL_mixer-1.2.so.0 libSDL_mixer.so

and see if that helps?

Conor
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