Howdy all! I am working on a free software library for climate scientists and meteorologists.
I'm converting the library to use libtool, but I have a very basic question: where should my library (by default) be installed? In the good old days, I would have unhesitatingly answered /usr/local/lib. But it seems that, when linking, libtool itself does not look in /usr/local/lib by default. (Or am I missing something?) In any case, my question is: where, in the opinion of the average libtool guru, should a general purpose scientific library be installed? It is unlikely that users will use libtool to link to this library. I would like them (as in the good old days) to just put -lLIBNAME on their compiler command and have it find the library. There is a school of thought (in this project) that the library should ultimately be installed (in default cases) in some subdirectory of the source code. Ease of having multiple versions of the library is cited as a supporting reason for this school of thought. Of course, in that case, a -I and -L option also must be provided by the user, to allow the compiler to find the include files, and the linker to find the library. Thanks for any answers! Ed -- Ed Hartnett -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool
