ld problem?

[Andrew Haley]

Douglas Felt wrote:
> Teach me to try to debug build problems at midnight with a head cold.  It
> was, of course, a library issue, not a problem with my version of ld.
> 
> It turns out that while I had libXtst, I didn't have the symbolic link
> libXtst.so to the actual version installed on my machine.  The same was
> true for libXi, which failed a bit later.  We'll see if I hit any more.
> 
> I'm not savvy about updating/customizing linux-- many of the other X libs
> have links already.  Should I have known to add these links? 

Certainly not.  They should be part of the libXtst-devel package or similar.

I wonder if you had libXtst but not the -devel package, or whatever Debian
calls it.

Andrew.