Re: linking issue - what am I doing wrong?

[Gerard Lally <gerard.lally%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Fri, 25 Mar 2016 15:50:36 -0600 (MDT)
Swift Griggs <swiftgriggs%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
> 
> Some folks, who have had similar issues, asked what I ended up doing and if I'd post it. Here's the skinny:
> 
> I was doing this:
> 
> gcc -g -Wall -I/usr/pkg/include -I/usr/X11R7/include -lXm \
>                    -L/usr/pkg/lib -o hello hello.c
> 
> I switched it to this:
> 
> gcc -Wl,-rpath,/usr/pkg/lib -Wl,-rpath,/usr/X11R7/lib -g -Wall \
>                    -I/usr/pkg/include -I/usr/X11R7/include -lXm \
>                    -L/usr/pkg/lib -o hello hello.c
> 
> I guess that bakes in the library search path to your resulting binary. Very helpful, actually. I just never really knew this was an alternative to something like always having to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH, but since I saw other programs that managed to pull it off, I thought I'd ask. I'm glad I did. There are so many smart folks on this list.

Thanks Swift. (I hit Reply instead of Reply-All, so the list never saw
my request. Sorry about that.)

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Gerard Lally