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One key problem with this is that many packages link a binary against a
library which is in a build directory, and then install both the library
and the binary.

That is to say that the -L argument often (usually?) _isn't_ the -Wl,-R
argument you want...

On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Peter Seebach wrote:

>It is a frequent nuisance to me that any program that is linked with
>X11 libs seems to need "-Wl,-R/usr/X11R6/lib".
>
>Couldn't/shouldn't the default be that "-Lfoo" *IMPLIES* that?  Is there
>some obvious trick I'm missing that would make a naive build script work
>by default, without having to tell it "by the way, you need to go out of
>your way to clarify that you weren't joking when you asked for the X11 libs"?

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				Jim Wise
				jwise@draga.com
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