On Mon, Mar 06, 2000 at 07:09:28PM +0100, Assar Westerlund wrote:
> Hi. Two questions:
>
> 1. Why are the *.la files installed? The comment says:
>
> # Install the pseudo-library for information purposes.
They are installed so that you can link against them with libtool:
libtool --mode=link gcc -o foo bar.c libbaz.la
> 2. How do you link against an installed library?
>
> As far as I can tell, there's no support of doing that. And it would
> seem to me that libtool is the ideal program that's already sick of
> all the different magic that has to be done to be able to figure out
> if to link against a shared or static library, and what's the required
> combination of -rpath, -R or what-not on this particular OS. Is it
> just not implemented? And should bury myself in libtool to fix this
> or is there somebody actually volunteer/working on it?
It has been working forever!
libtool --mode=link gcc -o foo bar.c -L/usr/local/lib -lbaz
Cheers,
Gary.
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