Re: Trouble installing mcrypt

On 2006-04-29, laredotornado@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Hi,

I'm trying to install mcrypt 2.6.4 on my Mandrake Linux system. When I
run "./configure", I get this error:

checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... (cached) none needed
checking dependency style of gcc... (cached) gcc3
checking for libmcrypt-config... no
checking for libmcrypt - version >= 2.5.0... no
*** Could not run libmcrypt test program, checking why...
*** The test program failed to compile or link. See the file config.log for the
*** exact error that occured. This usually means LIBMCRYPT was incorrectly installed
*** or that you have moved LIBMCRYPT since it was installed. In the latter case, you
*** may want to edit the libmcrypt-config script: no configure: error:
*** libmcrypt was not found

which baffles me because I do have libmcrypt installed -- I installed
it right before. The location is /usr/local/lib/libmcrypt.

First, did you do as the ouput suggested and check the config.log
file for the exact error?

Second, do you need to install the development version, e.g.
libcrypt-devel?

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