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building GD/gcc linking..



Matthew Gillen wrote:
> The problem is with library versioning.  You have a version of the jpeg
> library installed, but there is a convention with the linker that there
> should exist (for initial linking purposes) a .so version (with no
> numbers).  Redhat has taken the stance that since this symbolic link is
> only needed for compilation, then it is part of the -devel package.  So,
> the right solution to your problem is to install the -devel package
> corresponding to the package containing the libjpeg library.  The
> naughty thing you could do is just manually 'ln -s libjpeg.so.62 libjpeg.so'

WooHoo! That's been driving me nuts for almost 2 hours now. Thanks! (I 
did the naughty thing ;-).
-=Grant  M.=-





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