Re: linker wiredness?

On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 04:41:57AM -0700, soralx@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

soralx@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
[root@soralx /geda-gschem-20060123]# rm ./conftest
[root@soralx /geda-gschem-20060123]# cc -o conftest -g -O2 conftest.c -lstroke
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lstroke

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ -- why??? <<<

[root@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@soralx /geda-gschem-20060123]# cc -o conftest -g -O2 conftest.c -L/usr/local/lib -lstroke
[root@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@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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