Note: compilation problem / CLN / "missing libraries"

[Richard B. Kreckel]

On Sun, 26 May 2002, bullet.train wrote:
> Dear List,
> 
> I have had a long chase trying to compile GiNaC-
> 
> The problem has been trying to compile the CLN tests and libraries.
> 
> The symptoms are that the CLN test break and GiNaC fails to compile-
> compiler g++ --version 2.96 (nasty RH version)
> under linux
> 
> the problem is caused by the following line in cln-config
>         libdirs=-L${exec_prefix}/lib
> If this is present then the compiler flags see -L/usr/local/etc/etc and then 
> the compiler cannot find any of the usual libraries and so breaks this test
> and doesn't make.
> 
> Commenting out this line with '#' fixes the problem.
> 
> This is probably not a ginac problem- so this is for information only- 

If the line -L/usr/local/etc/etc is present and the compiler does not look
at the usual places for the library as well then the compiler is broken,
since the -L flag only extends the path where libraries are searched, it
doesn't replace it.  I don't really think it is, though.  The problem must
be elsewhere.

>From GCC's documentation:

`-LDIR'
     Add directory DIR to the list of directories to be searched for `-l'.

Regards
     -richy.
-- 
Richard B. Kreckel
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<http://wwwthep.physik.uni-mainz.de/~kreckel/>