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Date:      Mon, 29 Mar 1999 11:17:17 +0100
From:      Karl Pielorz <kpielorz@tdx.co.uk>
To:        thierry.herbelot@alcatel.fr
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Seeing new libs in /usr/local/lib? (ldconfig?)
Message-ID:  <36FF532D.85F068BE@tdx.co.uk>
References:  <36FEC784.BC51505E@tdx.co.uk> <19990328181433.B32089@bear.berkeleycs.ml.org> <36FF3F71.E418E120@tdx.co.uk> <36FF4EE4.ADD4D5D@telspace.alcatel.fr>

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HERBELOT Thierry wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Beware of Static/dynamic libraries (your library is .a, so it is static
> and must be linked-in at he compilation/linking time
>
> [snip]
>
> 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)

Thanks for the explanation! - Things are beginning to become clear now! - does
anyone have any recommended reading on unix libraries etc. in general?

-Karl


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