dragoran wrote: > I would like to add this: > i386-devel packages do not create the symlinks needed by ld to find a lib. > ld -lX11 will search for libX11.so > If you have libX11-devel.x86_64 installed there will be a symlink > /usr/lib64/libX11.so -> /usr/lib64/libX11.so.6.2.0 which is ok and works. > But if you have installed libX11-devel.i386 there is no symlink which > results into ld is unable to find the lib. > libX11 was just an example, this happens with ALL i386-devel packages. > Wrong, The foo-devel packages does install the symlink and it requires foo to ensure that the target of the symlink is there, however since foo.x86_64 is already installed, the requires: foo will be fullfilled and foo.i386 won't get installed. The trick is to learn yourself todo: yum -y install foo.i386 foo-devel.i386 instead of just: yum -y install foo-devel.i386 The same must be done for x86_64 btw, because otherwise if foo-devel.x86_64 is newer then the installed foo.x86_64, then the requires: foo = %{version}-%{release} will not be met and thus foo.x86_64 will get updated and foo.i386 will get installed (since yum doesn't know which if these 2 foo's to install to match the requires it installs both). Thus the proper way to install a foo-devel.x86_64 is: yum -y install foo.x86_64 foo-devel.x86_64 Otherwise foo.i386 might get installed as an unwanted side effect. I think we really should put this all in the wiki somewhere, suggestions where? Regards, Hans -- fedora-extras-list mailing list fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list