Re: AC_CHECK_LIB and FreeBSD

[Brad Douglas]

On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Steve M. Robbins wrote:

>On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 01:25:51AM -0800, Brad Douglas wrote:
>> I use the following in configure.in:
>> 
>> AC_CHECK_LIB(popt, poptGetContext, [AC_CHECK_HEADER(popt.h,,)],              
>>  
>>         AC_MSG_ERROR([popt library is required.]))
>> 
>> This works fine with Linux and Solaris, but FreeBSD is unable to find the 
>> header or library (they are installed in /usr/local/...).  I've tried 
>> several variations of the above including checking for the header 
>> separately.
>> 
>> Does AC_CHECK_LIB/HEADER() not search /usr/local on FreeBSD?  Any help 
>> would be greatly appreciated.
>
>The macros just use the compiler; look in config.log to see the test
>program used.  So the real question is: does FreeBSD's compiler search
>/usr/lib?  Maybe you need to set LDFLAGS and CPPFLAGS before running
>configure.

For future reference the following fixed my problem:

ldconfig -m -elf /usr/local/lib

Thanks for the pointers.

-Brad