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Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2003 16:51:33 +0100
From: Miguel Mendez <flynn@energyhq.homeip.net>
To: Sam Izzo <izzo@humbug.net>
Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: linker paths & /usr/local/lib
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On Mon, 24 Feb 2003 02:28:09 +1100
Sam Izzo <izzo@humbug.net> wrote:

Howdy,

> and the command-line:
> 
>    gcc test.c -o test -lHermes
> 

You probably want something like this:

   cc -o test test.c -L/usr/local/lib -lHermes
 
> Hermes is installed in /usr/local/lib (from ports).  The gcc/ld man
> pages and various sources on the web seem to indicate that
> /usr/local/lib isn't searched by default.  `ldconfig -r' shows hermes
> in its list, however.  Anyway man ld says that "for a native linker on
> an ELF system, if the file /etc/ld.so.conf exists, the list of
> directories found in that file" will be searched, so I added
> /usr/local/lib to that file (and /usr/X11R6/lib for good measure)
> however I still get the error.

IIRC, ld.so.conf only affects the runtime dynamic linker, in a similar
way LD_LIBRARY_PATH does.

Cheers,
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        Miguel Mendez - flynn@energyhq.homeip.net
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