Re: RC2 on Suse 9.3

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Jacques Le Bourlot wrote:

> * libgd:
>    I had to manually create a link from libgd.so.2 to libgd.so in
> /usr/lib. 

You should never have to do that.  Either ldconfig should do that 
automatically at installation time, or there must be some good reason it 
didn't.

 > It was not found by configure.

That was actually a good thing, since it didn't really work.  configure 
should only find actually working libraries.

 > Also gd was installed, but not
> gd-devel so that "make" crashed when looking for gd.h (which was not
> there). probably configure should look for both libgd and gd.h

Not really.  It only has to look for gdlib-config and trust its output.