ld can't find libraries

[Richard Bradley]

Hi all,

I can't get ld to recognise some "so" libraries without using the -L option:

%cat test.c
int main () {}
%ls /usr/local/lib/libsqlite*
/usr/local/lib/libsqlite.a   /usr/local/lib/libsqlite.so.2
/usr/local/lib/libsqlite.so
%gcc test.c -lsqlite
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lsqlite
%gcc test.c -L/usr/local/lib -lsqlite
%

However, /usr/local/lib is in its search path:

%ldconfig -r | grep sql
        search 
directories: /usr/lib:/usr/lib/compat:/usr/X11R6/lib:/usr/local/lib:/usr/local/lib/compat:/usr/local/lib/mysql:/usr/local/lib/compat/pkg:/usr/local/lib/wine:/usr/local/lib/kde3
        504:-lsqlite.2 => /usr/local/lib/libsqlite.so.2
        517:-lmysqlclient_r.12 => /usr/local/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient_r.so.12
        518:-lmysqlclient.12 => /usr/local/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient.so.12
%

What is going on here?

Any help would be much appreciated,


Rich