[MPlayer-users] Failed detection of libsmbclient

[The Wanderer]

On my system, configure fails to detect libsmbclient. I have
libsmbclient.h and libsmbclient.a, both symlinked to from the extra*dir
locations passed to configure.

Till recently, I had version 2.2.3a of each, acquired through the Debian
package. configure.log had about a half-dozen "undefined reference"
errors in the section dealing with libsmbclient. I have since upgraded
both to 3.0.0beta2, and now get more than a screen-full of such errors,
in a fullscreen xterm at 1600x1200.

What is going wrong here? What is required for libsmbclient to be
successfully detected? What have I left out which I should have
mentioned?

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