Installing libcheck in fedora 26 but fails to link

Question

I use libcheck in my C code for testing. I installed it using RPM (current version). In the folder /usr/lib64 i can find libcheck.so.0 and libsubunit.so.0. I did encounter however the following problems:

The header file was not in /usr/include, i copied it there myself
I'm not able to link the library using -lcheck of using - L/user/lib64/libcheck.so.0

i'm not sure if i did something wrong during the installation or why this is going so terribly. Any advice?

What about using "`-L/usr/lib64`" instead of "`- L/user/lib64/libcheck.so.0`" — Mathieu, Oct 31 '17 at 14:00
no success, undefined reference to the functions but thanks for the tip — Maarten Arits, Oct 31 '17 at 14:11

Florian Weimer · Accepted Answer · 2017-10-31T14:15:41.413

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You need to install the check-devel package in addition to check. It contains both the header file in /usr/include and the .so library file which enables linking.

This is documented in various places, for example in the packaging guidelines.

edited Oct 31 '17 at 14:15

answered Oct 31 '17 at 14:09

Florian Weimer

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Thanks, you save my day! Way is this not documented better? – Maarten Arits Oct 31 '17 at 14:13

Installing libcheck in fedora 26 but fails to link

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