On Tue, 28 Feb 2012, Marco Ricci wrote:
I built gtk locally on my computer and the build went fine, but when I wrote a small test program and tried to link it to the library that I built, it compiled fine, but behind the scenes, it actually linked to the file in /usr/lib.
I guess you checked that with ldd on your program, not strace on the build?
I've tried everything, -L option, compiling with the full path of the library file and even googling for the answer. I see that others have had the same problem but there are no satisfactory responses. I tried -nostdlib option with gcc but then it started complaining about other libraries.
There are 2 operations called linking. One is when you create the binary file. Another one is when you run it. -L tells where to look for libraries during the first one. -rpath (it is a linker option, so you want -Wl, in front) tells where to look during the second one.
-- Marc Glisse
