Re: gEDA-user: gwave cannot find libguilegtk-1.2.so.0 ?

[Richard Barrington <richard@freedomwigs.com>]

Also, you might need to run ldconfig after adding the /usr/local/lib
line to /etc/ld.co.conf - symlinks to /usr/lib shouldn't be necessary.

Rich.

On Mon, 2004-05-10 at 03:55, Stuart Brorson wrote:
> I have never had exactly this problem, although I *have* had lots of
> problems with loading .so's in the past.  Here are some suggestions:
> 
> *  Try putting a link to /usr/local/lib into your /etc/ld.so.conf file. 
> 
> *  Try adding /usr/local/lib to your $LD_LIBRARY_PATH
> 
> *  If you are running RedHat or a similar dist, a common problem is
> that most .so's are placed in /usr/lib, whereas straight GNU software
> (like guile) expects them to live in /usr/local/lib.  You can
> sometimes fool the loader by placing a symlink to your file from
> /usr/local/lib into /usr/lib.
> 
> *  Try "ldd `which gwave`".  This will tell you where it is looking
> for the .so's.  Knowing where the loader is finding your .so's
> might give you a tip about how your configuration is messed up.
> 
> Good luck!
> 
> Stuart
> 
> 
> > 
> > Hi guys,
> > 
> > I am trying to install gwave and run into this
> > problem:
> > 
> > gwave: error while loading shared libraries:
> > libguilegtk-1.2.so.0: cannot open shared object file:
> > No such file or diredtory
> > 
> > However, this file does exist in:
> > 
> > /usr/local/lib/
> > 
> > I am using:
> > 
> > guile-1.6.4
> > guile-gtk-1.2-0.31
> > gwave-20031224
> > 
> > I installed guile-1.6.4, then guile-gtl-1.2-0.31 and
> > finally gwave-20031224. Everything looks fine except
> > when I try to run gwave, I get the error message about
> > libguilegtk not found.
> > 
> > Did anyone have the same problem before?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > -Mel