Thanks Peter and Bob. On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 09:28:00PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Build-time linker path and run-time linker path are two different things. > > > I'm linking with zlib which is installed in /usr/local/lib, but it seems > > that on this machine (Solaris 2.6) that /usr/local/lib is not part of > > the default search path. > > That is the normal setup on Solaris, and indeed the zlib problem is also > quite "normal" on Solaris. Ok, so I'll try and make a note in our README. It does seem broken that the header file is found but not the library (linker and compiler are out of sync...) > > This causes confusion because configure is saying libz is found and then > > make check fails saying libz is not found. > > Then you need to teach make check about the run-time linker path. It's not just make check. If I add a note to our README does is there any difference between: LDFLAGS=-R/usr/local/lib and LD_RUN_PATH=/usr/local/lib > > Another thing that is confusing (and I'm not sure if it's related to why > > configure is not failing the libz check) is that the problem only > > happens when using a --prefix setting. > > That sounds pretty weird, but the problem would probably be with your > makefiles. I'm using automake and libtool as well. Plus, the package builds both a shared library and an application that links against that shared library. Maybe that's why I'm seeing the -R difference on the link line when --prefix is used. Thanks very much for the help. -- Bill Moseley moseley@xxxxxxxx
