Re: Discuss-gnustep Digest, Vol 2, Issue 28

[Dennis Leeuw]

Richard Stonehouse wrote:
> 
> Jeff,
> 
> The message <E18Y3AD-0002i9-02@monty-python.gnu.org>
> from discuss-gnustep-request@gnu.org contains these words:
> 
> > > Taking the command verbatim from the build guide:
> > >
> > >     $ strings `gcc --print-file-name=libgmp.so` | grep -e
> > > \^[[:digit:]].[[:digit:]].[[:digit:]]$
> > >
> > > I get:
> > >
> > >     strings: libgmp.so: No such file or directory
> > >
> > > But if I do:
> > >
> > >     $ locate libgmp.so
> > >
> > > I get:
> > >
> > >     /usr/lib/libgmp.so.3.3.0
> > >     /usr/lib/libgmp.so.3
> 
> > But no libgmp.so file. You have the shared library, but don't seem to have
> > the -devel package installed (which provides the .so symlink)
> 
> Oops! Thanks for the info.
> 
> I've now installed gmp-devel-4.1-4 and have libgmp.so, which is a sym
> link to libgmp.so.3.3.0. But still the command:
> 
>   


Use:
strings `gcc --print-file-name=libgmp.so` | grep -e
^[[:digit:]].[[:digit:]]$
And it probably solves that.


Dennis


> 
> produces no output - just comes back to the command prompt. It appears
> that the strings extracted from libgmp.so.3.3.0 do not include anything
> that looks like a version numer - in particular the expected string,
> "4.1", is not present. Could it perhaps have been removed in version 4.1
> of the library, thus invalidating the test given in the Build Guide?
> 
> The test for libtiff, using a similar strategy, produces
> 
>   LIBTIFF, Version 3.5.7
> 
> as expected.
> 
> --
> 
>     Richard Stonehouse
> 
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