On Sun, 9 Aug 1998, Tim Rightnour wrote:

: Please include -Wl,-R$(LOCALBASE)/lib  or -Wl,-R$(X11BASE)/lib whenever you use
: the corresponding -L option.  This is an elf thing, and will not affect a.out
: packages in any way.  It will however correctly build the ELF packages.  Its
: usually a matter of adding this to the LDFLAGS somewhere in the pkg, in front
: of whatever -L options you specify.  This is only needed when linking shared
: libraries in..

This is even easier with GNU pkgs.  If you add

CONFIGURE_ENV+=	LDFLAGS="-Wl,-R${LOCALBASE}/lib"

(or X11BASE, or both, as appropriate), it will DTRT automatically.

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-- Todd Vierling (Personal tv@pobox.com; Bus. todd_vierling@xn.xerox.com)