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Postings from February 2000
On Tue, 8 Feb 2000, Tom Christiansen wrote:
> % make clean; Configure -des
WARNING -- that won't delete your old config.sh!
> Checking for optional libraries...
>
> I could not find -lm, the mathematics library.
> This means that something went awfully wrong.
>
> Exit 1
5.5.650 caught some of the library stuff in flux and unfinished. (Jarkko
is working on trying to determine *where* particular libraries were found
because if a library is found in /lib32/libfoo.so but not in
/lib64/libfoo.so it might matter if you are trying to do 64-bit stuff.)
Obviously if this code is to be retained, it needs to be
more defensive about re-using an old config.sh, where the libsfound
variable wasn't set at all. (This will be an issue with 5.005-5.6
upgrades, and I'm sure it won't be the only one.)
In the meantime, since you re-used your old config.sh, you got caught :-).
Andy Dougherty doughera@lafayette.edu
Dept. of Physics
Lafayette College, Easton PA 18042