configure can't find libgsm development files, but they are installed

[Rosanne DiMesio]

On Wed, 05 Aug 2009 19:52:15 +0400
Nikolay Sivov <bunglehead at gmail.com> wrote:

> Rosanne DiMesio wrote:
> > Since yesterday, configure has been giving me a "libgsm development files not found" warning even though they are installed on my system. This is on openSUSE 11.1, 32 bit.
> >
> > Is anyone else seeing this, or is something borked on my system? (Any hints as to where I might look would be appreciated.) 
> >   
> Hi, Rosanne.
> 
> Installing libgsm1-dev version 1.0.12-1 from Debian 5.0 repo works for me.
> 
> config.log snip:
> ---
> configure:5894: checking gsm.h usability
> configure:5911: gcc -c -g -O2  conftest.c >&5
> configure:5918: $? = 0
> configure:5932: result: yes
> configure:5936: checking gsm.h presence
> configure:5951: gcc -E  conftest.c
> configure:5958: $? = 0
> configure:5972: result: yes
> configure:6005: checking for gsm.h
> configure:6014: result: yes
> ---

On my system, gsm.h was installed in /usr/include/gsm, but the log showed configure failed to find it. The location turned out to be the problem; putting a symlink in /usr/include solved it.  

Is this a Wine bug, or an openSUSE bug? 

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Rosanne DiMesio <dimesio at earthlink.net>