problems with guppi

[paul.poulain@free.fr]

At 18:15 19/06/01 -0500, Bill Gribble wrote:
>On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 08:24:00AM +1000, Kevin Hayes wrote:
> > > When I ./configure it says:
> > >
> > > checking for libguppi - version >= 0.35.1... Unknown library `libguppi'
> >
> > Try using ./configure --prefix=/opt/gnome --disable-libguppi-test....
>
>The 'unknown library' message comes from gnome-config.  It searches
>the "standard" Gnome directories plus $GNOME_PATH for a file called
>'lib/libguppiConf.sh', which should have come with your guppi
>development files.  My guess is that your Guppi install is in a
>"non-standard" location, i.e. not with the rest of your GNOME system
>files.
I had the same problem with mandrake 8. The reason was that guppi-libs 
where installed on /usr/local/lib, and my LD_LIBRARY_PATH was /usr/lib only.
The solution was to type (bash syntax) :
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib:/usr/local/lib
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
then everything was OK.
--
Paul