Re: Any way to specify path for *.la files?

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Mon, 18 Oct 2004, J.T. Conklin wrote:

> I have a package with many (~75+) libraries that are built in multiple
> (~3-4) subdirectories.
>
> If I wasn't using automake/libtool, I'd use -L to add the library
> directories to the linker path.  Is there an equivalent for finding
> *.la files?  Adding and maintaining library relative prefixes isn't
> very appealing.

Libtool will use -L arguments (similar to a linker) when it searches 
for .la files.

Since you using Automake, it is best to add library dependencies 
directly using LDADD since this ensures that the correct library is 
used, even for static linkage.  Static libraries can be a problem if 
there is an existing installed shared library with the same name since 
system linkers normally choose the shared version.

Bob
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