You can also add a line containing /usr/local/lib to /etc/ld.conf.so Then run /sbin/ldconfig. You usually need to run it just one time because packages using libtool & company do that by themself. Maurizio Umberto Puxeddu. On Sat, 2003-02-15 at 07:13, Jan "Evil Twin" Depner wrote: > It's way late at night and I just got finished with practice so my brain > is a quart low but I would be willing to bet that when you did the > ./configure for libsndfile and gwc you used no options. This will put > libsndfile in /usr/local/lib... which is not part of > LIB_WHATEVER_THE_HELL_IT_IS_PATH. I recommend to people that they use > ./configure --prefix=/usr on Red Hat systems because then everything > ends up in the LIBRARY_WHATEVER_THE_HELL_IT_IS_PATH. Yes, there is > something you can do with LD_CONFIG_SOMETHING_SOMETHING_SOMETHING but I > can never remember what that is so I take the cowards way out. Brute > force rules! > > Jan > > > > > On Fri, 2003-02-14 at 22:41, Howard Sanner wrote: > > I'm trying to compile Gnome wave cleaner. When I run configure, > > it tells me that I need libsndfile 1.0.0 or greater. I already > > downloaded libsndfile 1.0.4, and did the usual > > configure/make/make install. However, GWC's configure program > > still gives me the same error message. I don't know what's going > > on. > > > > Thanks. > > > > Howard Sanner > > flagstad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > >