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   From: Hadron    
   Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.ubuntu   
   Subject: Re: 3rd Party Package Installation Not Working   
   Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2007 12:23:08 +0100   
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   Patient Guy  writes:   
      
   > 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?   
   >   
   >   
      
      
   Try "comp.os.linux.development.apps" for a definitive answer.   
      
   Having said that, if you ran "./configure" then I am surprised that that   
   didn't pick up the missing dependencies.   
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