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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: ld not searching /usr/x11R6/lib
Date: 28 Aug 1995 11:40:07 +0200
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mapler <mapler@delphi.com> wrote:
>Since installing 2.0.5R, I have found that cc (ld) no longer searches
>in /usr/X11R6/lib for -lX11, etc. I have searched the man pages and
>found no way to add this directory to the standard ld search path.
>ldconfig is not the answer, since it only establishes hints for dynamicly
>loaded libraries. Is the only answer to link the .a files into /usr/lib?
>I know things were working under 2.0R, but I can't remember if I made
>the links or not. Any help is appreciated.
It has been decided that ld has only to deal with /usr/lib by default.
``Builtin knowledge'' is what always causes portability problems. Fix
your makefiles to include -L /usr/X11R6/lib (and -L /usr/local/lib,
FWIW).
Only /usr/lib is part of the operating system.
--
cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)