Re: give me "fish" & you feed me for a day..teach me 2 fish & u feed me 4ver!

2001-09-07 Thread jdls
Thanks to all you guys who responded to my questions...I believe I am on my way to being an: "expert"- one who knows more and more about less and less of something..until he knows absolutely everything about nothing... -Dr. Richard A. Eckhart

Re: give me "fish" & you feed me for a day..teach me 2 fish & u feed me 4ver!

2001-09-07 Thread Donna.
heh. I like that subject line. Here's another request for teaching assist. I'm a SCSI/CLI oldtimer who, in recent months, has gotten into video capture. This is like trying to learn 10 different new languages at the same time: IDE intrinsics (huge space is cheaper this way), sound recording and

Re: give me "fish" & you feed me for a day..teach me 2 fish & u feed me 4ver!

2001-09-07 Thread John Patton
> On Debian, at least, the library usually needed for compilation is the > static one (libfoo.a) as the shared libraries are "stripped" making > symbol resolution difficult. The shared library will still be used > for the runtime unless there isn't one to begin with or static linking > is specifi

Re: give me "fish" & you feed me for a day..teach me 2 fish & u feed me 4ver!

2001-09-07 Thread John Patton
On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 11:16:03PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Greetings, > > Some questions; > > 1. is there a resource out there somewhere that can clearly explain "ld" and > "ld" related problems and how to fix them? I sometimes build from source and > most of the time I get stuck with "

Re: give me "fish" & you feed me for a day..teach me 2 fish & u feed me 4ver!

2001-09-07 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 11:25:30PM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: > subject, good subject is the key to good answers... > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > 1. is there a resource out there somewhere that can clearly explain "ld" and > > "ld" related problems and how to fix them? I sometimes build from s

Re: give me "fish" & you feed me for a day..teach me 2 fish & u feed me 4ver!

2001-09-07 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 11:16:03PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Greetings, > > Some questions; > > 1. is there a resource out there somewhere that can clearly explain "ld" and > "ld" related problems and how to fix them? I sometimes build from source and > most of the time I get stuck with "

Re: give me "fish" & you feed me for a day..teach me 2 fish & u feed me 4ver!

2001-09-07 Thread Erik Steffl
subject, good subject is the key to good answers... [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 1. is there a resource out there somewhere that can clearly explain "ld" and > "ld" related problems and how to fix them? I sometimes build from source and > most of the time I get stuck with "ld" related problems and

Re: give me "fish" & you feed me for a day..teach me 2 fish & u feed me 4ver!

2001-09-07 Thread David Nusinow
Oh, and I forgot to mention *why* you need the libperl-dev package. In the spirit of the question you asked (teach me so I can do for myself) Debian takes the very interesting (and IMHO very smart) approach to packaging libraries by dividing them in to user and developer packages. If al

Re: give me "fish" & you feed me for a day..teach me 2 fish & u feed me 4ver!

2001-09-07 Thread David Nusinow
On Thursday 06 September 2001 04:16 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 1. is there a resource out there somewhere that can clearly explain "ld" > and "ld" related problems and how to fix them? I sometimes build from > source and most of the time I get stuck with "ld" related problems and I > have to

give me "fish" & you feed me for a day..teach me 2 fish & u feed me 4ver!

2001-09-07 Thread jdls
Greetings, Some questions; 1. is there a resource out there somewhere that can clearly explain "ld" and "ld" related problems and how to fix them? I sometimes build from source and most of the time I get stuck with "ld" related problems and I have to bother a lot of people on how to resolve it in