[Fwd: Cannot find libraries in /usr/local/lib even though they are in hints files]

[Edwin Groothuis]

On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 02:13:18AM -0500, Don L. Belcher wrote:
> Cannot find libraries in /usr/local/lib even thought they are in the 
> hints file. Is there something else I need to do?

Use the -L option for gcc (and other utilities) to specify the
location to search for libraries to be linked.

ldconfig is for run-time linking, not for compile-time linking.

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