Andrew, instead of trying to build the .so, you might want to grab an RPM that has it built already and extract the so file from it. I found the following when I searched rpmfind.net: http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/contrib/libc6/i386/gd-1.8.3-1.i386.html Avi Andrew Diederich wrote:

Well, I've tried a few things with my libgd.so.1 problem, all without solving it. Basically SuSE doesn't provide the so file, so I can't do anything with ldconfig to link it. I downloaded the source for the latest libgd (1.8.3) and compiled it, but it still only makes the libgd.a file, not any so files. The Makefile provided didn't have any ready-made selection for making shared libraries, and it was just a Makefile, not a cool ./configure script.

So, when I have the sources to a library, what magic do I need to do to make an so type thing versus a .a type thing?

-- Andrew Diederich

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