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   Subject: 3rd Party Package Installation Not Working   
   From: Patient Guy    
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   I have downloaded some open source scientific (bioinformatics-related:     
   OpenMS) software specifically written for *nix systems and have been    
   working to build it.   
      
   It has a number of libraries upon which it depends.  The complexity of the    
   build is such that the programmers have even bundled these into a    
   'contrib' package so that these libraries (BOOST, CGAL, NETCDF, XERCES)    
   will build optimally from a single configure/make so that the user does    
   not have to run around all over the net putting the pieces together.  The    
   only library they don't bundle is Qt3, which they say is found on most    
   systems anyway;  I have installed it through a form of apt (synaptics).   
      
   The package authors want the builder to set an environmental variable    
   LD_LIBRARY_PATH, which contains the list of searched directories to find    
   the libraries.   
      
   I have done the autoconf, configure with added options (options being    
   locations for libs and includes used during the build), make, make    
   install, and this sequence of processes goes through without process-   
   stopping errors.   
      
   The final command is 'make test' and this reports 'no such file or    
   directory' for many of the dynamically linked libraries.  I have done    
   'ls -alF' on the paths set for the environmental variable, and the    
   directories and the libraries are there.     
      
   The 'test' target for 'make' runs a number of executable files, and I have    
   done an 'ldd' command.  Curiously it says several libraries were 'not    
   found', consistent with the termination of the execution with shared    
   libraries not found.   
      
   Any ideas what I am failing to see here?   
      
      
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