Finding libraries to link with and autoconf resources?

[Mike Meyer]

In <45CE8BEC.7050404 at u.washington.edu>, Garrett Cooper <youshi10 at u.washington.edu> typed:
> Hello,
> 	This is my first attempt at porting an application, so please bear with me.
> 	I'm trying to port tvtime from Linux to FreeBSD and it's failing during 
> the configure stage (claims it can't find -lpng when running a link 
> test). I know I should probably use the Linux libpng library but I'm 
> trying to make the application as native as possible with FreeBSD.
> 	Anyhow though, I was wondering what directories I should typically 
> search when using -L for searching for the png libraries, for instance 
> (/usr/lib.. ?).

libpng isn't part of the base system, it's in the ports tree in
graphics/png. Assuming you've got that installed, then use
$LOCALBASE/bin/libpng-config to get the appropriate options.

If you're creating a port, add "png.5:${PORTSDIR}/graphics/png" to
LIB_DEPENDS.

	<mike


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