linker wiredness?

Chuck Swiger cswiger at mac.com
Tue May 9 11:22:07 UTC 2006


soralx at cydem.org wrote:
> [root at soralx /geda-gschem-20060123]# rm ./conftest
> [root at soralx /geda-gschem-20060123]# cc -o conftest -g -O2 conftest.c -lstroke
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lstroke
>   
>>>>            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^  -- why???            <<<
>>>>         
> [root at soralx /geda-gschem-20060123]# ldconfig -r|grep stroke
>         441:-lstroke.0 => /usr/local/lib/libstroke.so.0
>         442:-lgstroke.0 => /usr/local/lib/libgstroke.so.0
> [root at soralx /geda-gschem-20060123]# cc -o conftest -g -O2 conftest.c -L/usr/local/lib -lstroke
> [root at soralx /geda-gschem-20060123]# ll ./conftest           
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root  1000  5594 May  9 04:06 ./conftest*
>
> Am I missing something here?

FreeBSD's linker doesn't add /usr/local/lib to the search path by 
default, unlike some other operating systems.  The "-L/usr/local/lib" 
flag is therefore required...

-- 
-Chuck



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