[Modules] Problem with running 'configure' for mod_gnutls 0.4.3

Ernest Hymel, MD, PhD ehymel at e-medico.com
Wed May 7 13:54:29 EDT 2008


Perfect... I saw that in the error message, but didn't know to use  
/usr/local/lib. All working now, thanks very much.

Question: I'm not a programmer, so forgive my ignorance... wouldn't  
/usr/local/lib be a reasonable place to look by the configuration  
script?

Thanks again.


Quoting Simon Josefsson <simon at josefsson.org> from Wed 07 May 2008  
12:45:53 PM CDT:

> Try adding /usr/local/lib to /etc/ld.so.conf and running ldconfig as
> suggested by the error message, and then re-run ./configure.
>
> /Simon
>
> "Ernest Hymel, MD, PhD" <ehymel at e-medico.com> writes:
>
>> Thanks for all your great work.
>>
>> Running on Fedora 8, using gnutls-2.3.8, I am unable to successfully
>> run './configure' with either mod_gnutls 0.4.3 or 0.5.1. Version
>> 0.4.2.1 configures just fine. My error message:
>>
>> -----------------------------------------
>> <snip... >
>> checking whether DEFAULT_EXP_LIBEXECDIR is declared... no
>> checking for libgnutls-config... /usr/local/bin/libgnutls-config
>> checking for libgnutls - version >= 2.2.1... no
>> *** Could not run libgnutls test program, checking why...
>> *** The test program compiled, but did not run. This usually means
>> *** that the run-time linker is not finding LIBGNUTLS or finding the wrong
>> *** version of LIBGNUTLS. If it is not finding LIBGNUTLS, you'll need
>> to set your
>> *** LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable, or edit /etc/ld.so.conf to point
>> *** to the installed location  Also, make sure you have run ldconfig if that
>> *** is required on your system
>> ***
>> *** If you have an old version installed, it is best to remove it, although
>> *** you may also be able to get things to work by modifying LD_LIBRARY_PATH
>> ***
>> configure: error:
>> ***
>> *** libgnutls were not found. You may want to get it from
>> *** http://www.gnutls.org/
>> ***
>> -----------------------------------------
>>
>> My system does have libgnutls-config in the expected location:
>> # which libgnutls-config
>> /usr/local/bin/libgnutls-config
>>
>> and it runs successfully:
>> # /usr/local/bin/libgnutls-config --version
>> 2.3.8
>>
>> Any hints? Happy to provide other info as needed.
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