Re: gEDA-user: Trouble with debian install

[Charles Lepple <clepple-at-NOSPAMghz_dot_cc>]

On Tuesday, April 15, 2003, at 06:26  PM, John Griessen wrote:

> This file allows automake/autoconf to find libraries that are called
> shared or static, meaning fragments are referenced by multiple programs
> = shared, one program : one reference (multiple copies ) = static.

autoconf-generated scripts only use ld.so.conf indirectly, unless 
something has changed drastically in autoconf when I wasn't looking.

When you run configure, it uses the compiler (which uses the linker) to 
search for libraries. If you are linking statically, the search order 
is determined by the system library directories and any -L/-l options 
passed through to the linker.

ld.so.conf also only affects the search order for shared libraries, 
although you would probably be correct to guess that static libraries 
are also going to be in the listed directories.

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Charles Lepple <clepple@ghz.cc>
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