Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 06:59:27 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> To: soralx@cydem.org Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: linker wiredness? Message-ID: <20060509185927.GB5327@osiris.chen.org.nz> In-Reply-To: <200605090441.57320.soralx@cydem.org> References: <200605090416.24346.soralx@cydem.org> <44607B4C.8060801@mac.com> <200605090441.57320.soralx@cydem.org>
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On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 04:41:57AM -0700, soralx@cydem.org wrote:
>
> > soralx@cydem.org wrote:
> > > [root@soralx /geda-gschem-20060123]# rm ./conftest
> > > [root@soralx /geda-gschem-20060123]# cc -o conftest -g -O2 conftest.c -lstroke
> > > /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lstroke
> > >
> > >>>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ -- why??? <<<
> > >>>>
> > > [root@soralx /geda-gschem-20060123]# ldconfig -r|grep stroke
> > > 441:-lstroke.0 => /usr/local/lib/libstroke.so.0
> > > 442:-lgstroke.0 => /usr/local/lib/libgstroke.so.0
> > > [root@soralx /geda-gschem-20060123]# cc -o conftest -g -O2 conftest.c -L/usr/local/lib -lstroke
> > > [root@soralx /geda-gschem-20060123]# ll ./conftest
> > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 1000 5594 May 9 04:06 ./conftest*
> > >
> > > Am I missing something here?
> >
> > FreeBSD's linker doesn't add /usr/local/lib to the search path by
> > default, unlike some other operating systems. The "-L/usr/local/lib"
> > flag is therefore required...
>
> but ldconfig already found the library (line 441)!?
ld(1) doesn't consult ldconfig(8).
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Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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