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From: HERBELOT Thierry <Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr>
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To: Karl Pielorz <kpielorz@tdx.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Seeing new libs in /usr/local/lib? (ldconfig?)
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Hello,

Beware of Static/dynamic libraries (your library is .a, so it is static
and must be linked-in at he compilation/linking time, whereas .so
libraries are dynamic and are linked-in at run time : these are taken
into account via ldconfig, which gives hints to the real-time
linker/loader)

So : all your attempts to use ldconfig or LD_LIBRARY_PATH are useless,
you must add a line in your makefile to direct gcc to search for static
libraries (-L option)

	cheers

	TfH

Karl Pielorz wrote:
> 
> Spam Me Here wrote:
> >
> > Their are two things you can do, first for ldconfig, to get it to scan
> > /usr/local/lib, you would type
> >
> >         ldconfig /usr/local/lib
> >
> > to get your program to find libraries in /usr/local/lib, you should
> > set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to /usr/local/lib
> 
> Thanks for the reply... Sadly neither of the above worked. The compilation
> process still bombs out while looking for 'libttf.a' - which is blatently in
> /usr/local/lib
> 
> If I run 'ldconfig -v -aout' I get a huge stream of library names pass by...
> If I do the same with 'ldconfig -v -elf' I get nothing - is this right? I've
> read the man page for ldconfig, but I'm really much more enlightened... :(
> 
> The library was built recently on my machine - so I assume it's going to be
> elf? - I'm still not sure why it will see the libgd.a, but not libttf.a - If I
> even just symlink libttf.a to /usr/lib the compile goes OK, but I don't really
> want to do this...
> 
> Anything else I can try?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Karl
> 
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