Linking in an .so on linux with rebuild?

[Daniel Keep]

I found a solution.

See
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/335928/linux-gcc-linking-ld-cannot-find-a-library-that-exists

For me, I needed readline and history, so I did this:

$ cd /lib
$ sudo ln -s libreadline.so.5 libreadline.so
$ sudo ln -s libhistory.so.5 libhistory.so

After that, ld didn't complain.