Re: strange linker/autoconf stuff

Alexandre Oliva <oliva@lsd.ic.unicamp.br> writes:

> On Sep 15, 2000, Branko �ibej <branko.cibej@hermes.si> wrote:
>
> > Not really expert, but ... Yes, you can put -L switches in LIBS,
> > but don't. :-)
>
> Indeed. LDFLAGS is the right place for such flags :-)
>
> > If your linker doesn't search /usr/local/lib, then I'd say you
> > should fix your linker configuration (maybe something's broken
> > in /etc/ld.so.conf?) instead of adding that path to LIBS.
>
> Nope, ld.so.conf is a run-time issue, the problem is at compile (link)
> time.
>

I've decided that my system linker is just broken. When I run `ld
--verbose', I notice that the only argument to the SEARCH_DIR()
command is /usr/lib. I need to figure out how to tweak the global
behavior of my linker... there's no /etc/ld.so.conf on FreeBSD. :)
Received on Sat Oct 21 14:36:08 2006