On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 4:52 AM, Thomas Jahns <jahns@xxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. Wow! That took a _long_ time to percolate through the system. Thanks for the answers folks. Please keep them coming. In the mean time, I learned that if I just added path/to/library.la to my _LDADD definition, and put an LT_INIT in my configure.ac file, I could test my application and pull in the new library the way I wanted. --wpd _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf