On Thu, Apr 7, 2022 at 8:50 PM Michael Hennebry <hennebry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Why? > I am not trying to build or edit mpfr. > The error message in config.log says that it was > looking for the symbol mpfr_snprintf in -lmpfr . > It did not even find -lmpfr . > Why not? Because /usr/lib64/libmpfr.so is in the mpfr-devel package, not the mpfr package. This is not unique to mpfr. All library packages in Fedora do this. See: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/#_devel_packages -- Jerry James http://www.jamezone.org/ _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure