Just a quick thought - this wouldn't be a typo, would it??

     "-L/usr/local/lib/happcoders"

Right about that you've got:

     (/usr/local/lib/happycoders) # ls

with a "y" in it...

Ralph Mitchell

On 7/15/06, Chris LaVelle <cjlavelle_at_comcast.net> wrote:
>
> I apologize in advance guys/gals, hate posting this but at my end.
>
> Downloaded Curl and was trying to play with an example or two, and
> stumbled across the fact that my machine doesn't have a version of
> libsocket on it? I would have thought this would have seen part of the
> standard install, but obviously it's not. I've run countless searches
> on the web to find a place to download a socket library, but can't seem
> to find one that works.
>
> The only libsocket I've found is:
>
> (/usr/local/lib/happycoders) # ls
> libsocket.a libsocket.la libsocket.so
> libsocket.so.0 libsocket.so.0.1.7
>
> But even after installing that and adding "-L/usr/local/lib/happcoders "
> to the Makefile I still get the following error:
>
> (/home/cjlavelle/Zreport) # make
> gcc -o example fopen.o
> -L/home/cjlavelle/Downloads/curl-7.15.4/lib
> -L/usr/local/ssl/lib -L/usr/local/lib/happcoders
> -lcurl -lsocket -lnsl
> -lssl -lcrypto -dl
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lsocket
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make: *** [example] Error 1
>
> It would have seemed to me that I would have been able to find a
> standard socket library on the gnu web site or with several google
> searches, but couldn't.
>
> This is a really new install of Fedora 5 Linux. So I guess the question is what am I supposed to be downloading to get a fairly standard libsocket that will work with libcurl? Is this buried in another package?
>
> Thanks for any and all help,
>
> Chris
>
>
>
Received on 2006-07-15