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Date:      Thu, 16 Dec 2004 18:17:14 +1100
From:      Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org>
To:        "Don L. Belcher" <don@siad.net>
Cc:        freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: [Fwd: Cannot find libraries in /usr/local/lib even though they are in hints files]
Message-ID:  <20041216071714.GD1541@k7.mavetju>
In-Reply-To: <41C1358E.1020305@siad.net>
References:  <41C1358E.1020305@siad.net>

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On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 02:13:18AM -0500, Don L. Belcher wrote:
> Cannot find libraries in /usr/local/lib even thought they are in the 
> hints file. Is there something else I need to do?

Use the -L option for gcc (and other utilities) to specify the
location to search for libraries to be linked.

ldconfig is for run-time linking, not for compile-time linking.

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