Sebastian E. Ovide wrote, at 11/18/2010 06:02 PM +9:00: > Hi All, > > I'm building mapserver and it requires [B]libpgport.a[/B] that in other distributions > is part of [B]libpq-dev[/B] but I cannot find it with YUM... > > any ideas > > thanks > For some (reasonable) reason, usually Fedora strongly discourages to ship static archives in binary rpms: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#Packaging_Static_Libraries You can see this also happened on postgresql: http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=a6a1e9bfab6192bbdaea41e88368ae7d242316d7 You should really check if libpgport.a is really needed, i.e. check it the package you are trying to build supports dynamic linkage (against libpgport.so). By the way, mapserver is in Fedora: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/acls/name/mapserver http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=4354 Regards, Mamoru -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
