Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2003 17:51:47 -0700 From: Joshua Oreman <oremanj@webserver.get-linux.org> To: lewiz <purple@lewiz.info> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ld and libraries troubles (newbie). Message-ID: <20030708005147.GC40769@webserver.get-linux.org> In-Reply-To: <20030708004340.GB18537@lewiz.org> References: <20030708004340.GB18537@lewiz.org>
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On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 01:43:40AM +0100 or thereabouts, lewiz wrote: > Hi, > > I'm fairly new to porting (as you'll probably figure out with the body > of my question :) and am having a few troubles (I believe to be with > ld/ldconfig and search paths, etc.). > > I'm attempting to create a port for Dasher (a text-input solution), > which requires expat and libintl to configure/compile (in that order). > For some reason it does not find libexpat (ld: cannot find -lexpat), > which is available in /usr/local/lib. I created a symlink to /usr/lib > and it worked, but then failed when make got to libintl.a (in > /usr/local). I've done my best to read the Porter's Handbook > (especially the chapter on Dependencies) but this has been of little > help. Any pointers in the right direction would be greatly appreciated! DON'T depend on symlinking libraries, since when the port installs the end user might not have those symlinks. Add -L/usr/local/lib to the link line in the Makefile. Make a patch to do this. -- Josh > > Thanks very much, > > -lewiz. > > -- > It is much easier to suggest solutions when you know nothing about the > problem. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > -| msn:purple@lewiz.net | jab:lewiz@jabber.org | url:http://lewiz.net |-
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