ld finds some libraries, but not others (REVISED)

[Michael Schwendt]

On Thu, 15 Dec 2011 00:31:26 -0800, JR (Jonathan) wrote:

> A build is failing with the error cannot find <library> for libraries
> that are, in fact present on the system.

They aren't. The "test bed" is invalid. Linker option -lwhatever needs
expects to find a  libwhatever.so  file or symlink. Those are provided by
the respective -devel packages.
 
>         lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root     15 Nov  9 18:28 libICE.so -> libICE.so.6.3.0*
>         lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root     15 Nov  9 08:02 libICE.so.6 -> libICE.so.6.3.0*
>         -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root  98328 Jun 21 09:37 libICE.so.6.3.0*

Here, libICE.so is present.

>         lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root     14 Nov  9 08:14 libgd.so.2 -> libgd.so.2.0.0*
>         -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 278048 Oct 26 20:15 libgd.so.2.0.0*

Here, libgd.so is not present.

>         /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lgd