Re: /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lmpfr [solved]

[Michael Hennebry]

On Thu, 7 Apr 2022, Jerry James wrote:

>  On Thu, Apr 7, 2022 at 8:50 PM Michael Hennebry
>  <hennebry(a)web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu&gt; 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: 
As noted previously, /usr/lib64/libmpfr.so.6 is in whatever I've got:
[hennebry@fedora gappa-1.4.0]$ ls  /usr/lib64/libmpfr*
/usr/lib64/libmpfr.so.6  /usr/lib64/libmpfr.so.6.1.0
[hennebry@fedora gappa-1.4.0]$

An experiment showed me that the .6 suffix prevented ld from finding -lmfpr .
mpfr-devel appears to have gotten me a soft link ending in .so
and a header file.

gappa 1.4.0 is built.

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