Re: libcdk.so.6.2.4 symlink not installed by make install

[Thomas Dickey]

On Fri, Mar 01, 2019 at 04:28:17PM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 01, 2019 at 05:43:06PM +0000, Brownridge, Tom wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Although configuring and building with --make-shared creates the symlink
> > libsdk.so.6.2.4, make install doesn't install it.  Is this a bug?
> 
> perhaps - but the RPMs I made (Fedora, Mageia, SUSE) have the link.
> Ditto for the DEBs.
>  
> > I'm using centos7, and ran the following:
> > ../cdk-5.0-20190224/configure --srcdir=../cdk-5.0-20190224 --with-shared
> 
> perhaps the relative path is the problem (for rpms and deb's, I'm
> building in a -- temporary -- source-tree).

I see the problem, will put out a fix (am working on ncurses now).
 
> > make
> > sudo make install
> > 
> > I then went back and built/ran the demos and got "libcdk.so.6.2.4: cannot 
> > open shared object file"
> > 
> > I looked back at the install log and top Makefile and it seems install 
> > copies libcdk.so.5.0 but not the symlink libcdk.so.6.2.4, which my compiler 
> > happily found and linked to.
> > 
> > As an investigation step, I created the symlink and set LD_LIBRARY_PATH and 
> > the application ran:
> > 
> > sudo ln -s /usr/local/lib/libcdk.so.5.0 /usr/local/lib/libcdk.so.6.2.4
> > export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib
> > ./clock
> > 
> > Sincerely,
> > 
> > Tom Brownridge
> > 
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