Thanks for the information, Dr. Kirby. Is that -R flag for the compiler or the linker? I thought the linker's -L flag will tell it to look for libraries there. I guess it does not embed the path in the final library file. > > > The issue is that the run time linker does not know to look in /usr/local/lib for > libraries, so unless the path is hard-coded into the executable, the libraries > will not be found. > > Some programs are compiled in such a way they automatically look in > /usr/local/lib. You should find that by recompiling all your sources with the > compiler flag "-R /usr/local/lib" will work. > > Setting > > LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib > export LD_LIBRARY_PATH > > will probably "solve" your problem, in that your code will probably find the > libraries. But it's not a very good solution. > > You can change the places the run time linker looks for libraries. You could > make it always look in /usr/local/lib, but such a change is a bad idea IMHO. > > Dave
