[Mapserver-users] Compile/library problems

[Jean-Francois.Doyon at CCRS.NRCan.gc.ca]

Andrew,

Hmmmm. When you say installed, you mean you configure with a --prefix, and
then did a "make install"?

If so, the problem is probably simply the path you're giving to configure
...

let's say you created ~/lib and ~/include to put your librairies in ... In
this case, you saying --with-gd=/ might just work (the lib and include
directories are ofthen "assumed" by configure scripts.  This becomes
sligghtly clearer if you use a subdirectory for your styff, so ~/mylibs
inside which you create lib and include, and then feed ~/mylibs to your
configure ...

In some cases, you can try pointing to the src directory where the library
has been built.

But you're going to have a bigger problem.  The system linker on your ISP's
server isn't going to find the librairies it wants to dynamically load. To
get around this, either you get them to update their linker paths
(ld.so.conf), which is unlikely they would do, or you use your own linker
... Or, last resort, statically build your cgi executable ... though I
couldn't help you with that I'm afraid!

J.F.



-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Covey [mailto:lornknight at yahoo.com]
Sent: Monday, January 06, 2003 3:50 PM
To: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
Subject: [Mapserver-users] Compile/library problems


Hello,

I am attempting to install MapServer via an account
with an ISP, who allowed me to install the necessary
support libraries (in my home dir).  When I attempt to
compile map server, I specify where the libs are -
just as ./configure --help specifies I should. 
./configure will, under no circumstances, acknowledge
the presence of the libraries I have compiled.  

I have had this compile problem with other Redhat
boxes, and Gentoo Linux boxes also.  Slackware seems
to behave well however.  Sadly, my ISP is using RedHat
7.2, and will not change distros just for little'ole
me.

Can anyone help me figure out why I can't seem to
compile in the libs I compiled and installed in my
home dir?  Need my ISP install the libraries instead
of myself for some reason?  Any help would be most
appreciated.

Thanks,

Andrew C.
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