Re: general problem with pkgsrc on 64bit linux

[Greg Troxel <gdt%ir.bbn.com@localhost>]

Roland Illig <rillig%NetBSD.org@localhost> writes:

> Greg Troxel wrote:
>> I think you've figured it out, but truly fixing this seems very hard.
>> The basic problem seems to be that buildlink can either -L to a native
>> directory, or a pkgsrc directory, and depending on PREFER_* each package
>> should come from the other.  So it's almost like libraries need to be
>> added with
>>
>>   (-L /usr/foo/lib -lbar)
>
>
> In the ld(1) manpage, there is written:
>
>> All -L options apply to all -l options, regardless of the
>> order in which the options appear.

Thanks for clarifying - I realized that what I wanted isn't supported
without changing ld pretty seriously, but I didn't say that.