Bob Friesenhahn <bfriesen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Thu, 19 Aug 2004, Andreas Schwab wrote: > >> Stephan A Suerken <absurd@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> >>> Afaik, LD_LIBRARY_PATHs, if set, should have precedence over standard >>> paths. >> >> LD_LIBRARY_PATH has no significance to the linker for finding the >> libraries to be linked in. > > This is not a true statement. Some linkers (e.g. apparently Solaris 9s > ld') will use LD_LIBRARY_PATH for finding libraries. GNU ld also uses it, but only for finding implicit dependencies of shared libraries, and the Solaris linker may be doing the same. Note that I wrote "libraries to be linked in" above, which does not include those dependencies. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@xxxxxxx SuSE Linux AG, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
