Re: GNUstep Build Guide and other documents

[Jeff Teunissen]

Richard Stonehouse wrote:

> Hello Dennis,
> 
> > > Checking the version numbers of installed software, I couldn't get
> > > some of the more complex tests to work (the ones that do "strings
> > > `gcc --print-file-name=...").
> >
> > What is the problem? Doesn't the Red Hat compiler return the right
> > files when doing gcc --print-file-name=...
> > Or are there problems in getting the version-numbers from the
> > libraries...?
> 
> 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)

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