From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 4 7:27:10 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B041737B401 for ; Sat, 4 Jan 2003 07:27:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail12.atl.registeredsite.com (mail12.atl.registeredsite.com [64.224.219.86]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79C4F43E4A for ; Sat, 4 Jan 2003 07:27:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from admin@asarian-host.net) Received: from asarian-host.net (asarian-host.net [216.122.74.112]) by mail12.atl.registeredsite.com (8.12.2/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h04FR1eW027901 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NOT) for ; Sat, 4 Jan 2003 10:27:01 -0500 Comments: To protect the identity of the sender, certain header fields are either not shown, or masked. Anonymous email addresses for asarians can be requested by filling in the appropriate form at: https://asarian-host.net/cgi-bin/signup.cgi Received: (from root@localhost) by asarian-host.net (8.11.6/8.11.0) id h04FR1J35690 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 4 Jan 2003 16:27:01 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from admin@asarian-host.net) Posted-Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2003 16:27:01 +0100 (CET) From: Mark Message-Id: <200301041526.H04FQWS35646@asarian-host.net> Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2003 16:26:54 +0100 X-Authenticated-Sender: admin@asarian-host.net Subject: Re: Mysterious problem with ldconfig and ld X-Trace: EF83ChI6ghRoDs9hQvHL3B7OE7Hx5Dm4Xf1aJsSdySBbNBFQ6qeMQUayVj5vsbLJ X-Complaints-To: abuse@asarian-host.net X-Abuse-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-Info: Otherwise we are unable to process your complaint Organization: Asarian-host To: "Justin Hopper" , "Matthew Emmerton" Cc: References: <1041652526.27245.29.camel@home.gusalmighty.com><004001c2b3a6$b3c4fe10$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> <1041654912.27258.36.camel@home.gusalmighty.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 X-Auth: Asarian-host PGP signature iQEVAwUAPhb9RTFqW1BleBN9AQHWEAf/YsU+WMLtc1BoucdtRfer3zZrBvlxv963 QMKR96dYRcEDatE1YRkikih/kjTXr2aBwRjRafTDb+Oy1rQM5nnGW1XX4kftzb9+ 2Rw7mNuhW4yxFIVeZxJaSJQs9AXvVjZCumwSU5IezFXTlWSHrwK4DuiZnABRoePm QrtCED5l8PmJPwaZuyxm9GoDX4m6n8yFqtkiAY5E6uSyEItpsizgKZfa/pwkIC0O TWiqgmbHpiagXQDEjugUNm9Uo1Y/IDApJjMaMd8tBgA7gfXXnYW13aij7i8xXjGb oYl3ecRuTgz6lOCwFGapYnQHALvhEz7kBby3W4gA3WvEPd3PV7ulmg== =nJ2a Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ----- Original Message ----- From: "Justin Hopper" To: "Matthew Emmerton" Cc: Sent: Saturday, January 04, 2003 5:35 AM Subject: Re: Mysterious problem with ldconfig and ld > What ultimately fixed the problem was hardcoding the > -L /usr/local/lib in the configure script, since it refused > to pick up that directory any other way. > > Thanks for your help. As a point of curiosity, I'd still like to > know why ld would still need the -L /usr/local/lib if the full > path to the library is already in the cache? If you ever do find out, be sure to let us know. I had a similar problem once, be it with a MySQL library, and ultimately I had to resort to putting a symbolic link in /usr/lib to the /usr/local/lib library. That worked too, be it not a real elegant solution. - Mark To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message