port-i386: Re: Why do I need to add an entry into ld.so.conf?

Subject: Re: Why do I need to add an entry into ld.so.conf?
To: Phil Pereira <phil@bsdnexus.com>
From: Courtney R. Spencer <cspencer@mindspring.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 03/23/2005 17:45:25

On Wed Mar 23, 2005 at 10:27:33PM +0000, Phil Pereira wrote:
> Why is the "-L" options not sufficient? Why is an extra "-R" option pointing to the same directory needed?
> 
> I'm really appreciating all of this - I'm new to C.  It all started when I wanted the app wmswallow 'cos I couldn't find it in pkgsrc and needed the functionality to add extra apps to the dock in openbox3.
> 
> Thanks
> 

I setup an alias so that handbuilt, pkgsrc-foreign packages can find what they
need.

netbsdconfigure: aliased to LDFLAGS='-L/usr/pkg/lib -R/usr/pkg/lib' CFLAGS='-g -I/usr/pkg/include' CXXFLAGS='-g -I/usr/pkg/include' ./configure

-- 
Courtney