Re: What is the best/recommended technique for referencing development libraries?

[Thomas Jahns]

On 12/11/14 04:20, Patrick Doyle wrote:
> But now I would like to compile a custom version of libzbar, and tell
> my custom gstzbar plugin to reference that library instead of the one
> install in /usr/lib.
>
> What's the best/recommended way to do this?

So you want to link something in /usr/local instead of /usr/lib and use run-time 
loading. That means you want to use dynamic linking, which is outside the scope 
of autoconf itself but addressed much more reliably with libtool. I recommend 
you use that.

Regards, Thomas
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