Re: library search test fails, please help

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sun, 22 Feb 2009, Allan Caffee wrote:

> AC_CHECK_LIB (AFAIK) is not intended to handle static libraries.  The
> reason for this is that compilers handle static libraries quite
> differently than shared object libraries.  Compilers treat static
> libraries as a single big object file to be included along with all the
> others.  For example to compile the test program you would use something
> like:
>
> g++-mp-4.3 -o conftest -g -O2 -I/Users/aaragon/Lib/include 
> /Users/aaragon/Lib/lib/cpputils.a conftest.cpp

you can _make_ a compiler do that, but it's not the usual way static 
libraries are used.

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