linker wiredness?

[Jonathan Chen]

On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 04:41:57AM -0700, soralx at cydem.org wrote:
> 
> > 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...
> 
> but ldconfig already found the library (line 441)!?

ld(1) doesn't consult ldconfig(8).
-- 
Jonathan Chen <jonc at chen.org.nz>
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