Re: Library path with AC_CHECK_LIB

[Lars Hecking]

address@hidden writes:
> Hi, I'd like to ask about this again, as I'm waiting to release on this 
> problem.
> 
> The problem is that configure[1] is finding[2] libz and adding it to my
> link line[3] but when linking libz is not found.
> 
> libz is in /usr/local/lib, but that is not a compiled in path for ld.
> 
>   %/usr/ccs/bin/ld -V
>   ld: Software Generation Utilities - Solaris/ELF (3.0)
> 
> This is on Solaris 2.6.  
> # Generated by GNU Autoconf 2.57.
> 
> I'm wondering if this is just a single broken machine or if we will have 
> problems on other Solaris machines.
[...]
 
 On Solaris prior to release 8, the proper linker flags must be specified
 to enable the linker to find the correct runtime libraries. Either via
 -R/usr/local/lib, or LD_RUN_PATH=/usr/local/lib in the environment.

 From release 8 on, use crle(1), the Solaris equivalent of ldconfig under
 Linux.