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Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, f.loeber@googlemail.com,
	Oliver Mahmoudi <olivermahmoudi@gmail.com>,
	Gabor Kovesdan <gabor@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: writing a FreeBSD C library
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Harald Servat <redcrash@gmail.com> writes:
>   In addition, the -l X option in the gcc compiler looks for libX.[a|so] =
in
> the all specified paths defined by -L, so in your first command
>   gcc -o aprog aprog.c -I ~/mylib/
>   you're making gcc to look for for something called lib~/mylib/.[a|so]
> which I doubt it can be found.

You're confusing -l with -I...  but the rest of your email is correct.

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Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no