At the risk of showing my ignorance, you might need symbolic links:
libcurl.so.2->libcurl.so.2.0.2 and libcurl.so->libcurl.so.2. Or, you
might need to set ld_library_path.

Joe Halpin wrote:

> I'm trying to install curl-7.10.8.tar.gz on a Solaris 8 box for
> testing, but make install always fails with the following output:
>
> $ make install
> Making install in lib
> /bin/bash ../mkinstalldirs /export/home/rch033/jhalpin/lib
> /bin/bash ../libtool --mode=install /usr/sbin/install libcurl.la
> /export/home/rch033/jhalpin/lib/libcurl.la
> /usr/sbin/install .libs/libcurl.so.2.0.2
> /export/home/rch033/jhalpin/lib/libcurl.so.2.0.2
> find: cannot open /export/home/rch033/jhalpin/lib/libcurl.so.2.0.2: No
> such file or directory
> find: cannot follow symbolic link /bin/setprofile.tcl: No such file or
> directory
> find: cannot follow symbolic link /usr/bin/setprofile.tcl: No such
> file or directory
> install: libcurl.so.2.0.2 was not found anywhere!
> *** Error code 2
> make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `install-libLTLIBRARIES'
> Current working directory
> /export/home/rch033/jhalpin/curl/curl-7.10.8/lib
> *** Error code 1
> make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `install-am'
> Current working directory
> /export/home/rch033/jhalpin/curl/curl-7.10.8/lib
> *** Error code 1
> make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `install-recursive'
>
> I've been looking through makefiles and such, but I'm not familiar
> with the GNU build stuff (libtool etc). The make output doesn't show
> libcurl.so.2.0.2 or any of the links being propagated to the lib
> directory. There were no errors in buiding.
>
> I'm guessing it's something in my environment, but I don't see it yet.
> Has anyone here run into this before?
>
> Thanks
>
> joe
>
>
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