Re: how to link with installed libltdl?

[Andreas Jellinghaus]

On Thursday 01 September 2005 20:41, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> Dependent libraries it has, CFLAGS should not be necessary.  Everything
> else would be a bug in ltdl.
> 
> > is there something that works like AC_CHECK_LIB, except that AC_CHECK_LIB 
> > seems to have no clue about *.la files, so is there some alternative that 
> > does?
> 
> Yes, there are good macros that do this.  Check out lib-link.m4 and
> companions from gettext (alternatively they are conveniently available
> as module in gnulib), written by Bruno Haible.

thanks, I'm not using 
dnl use ltdl
AC_LIB_LINKFLAGS(ltdl)

but libltdl.la has:
# Libraries that this one depends upon.
dependency_libs=' -ldl'

so shouldn't that m4 code add "-ldl" somewhere to my link
flags? no sign of "-ldl" anywhere. do I need to add that
myself?

Regards, Andreas