>This is why linking with -R is the better answer. ... Absolutely. LD_LIBRARY_PATH has a lot of really evil side effects and should be an absolute last resort.
>And, of course, most or all instances of 'configure' that I encounter >fail completely ... That's interesting. Not long ago I discovered Amanda had a --with-libraries option that took a list of directories and stuck them on the load lines with "-L" (it also has a --with-includes along the same line). I was kind of happy because this was easier than what I had been doing (via an LD_FLAGS environment variable, as I recall). Since I didn't have any shared libraries in the extra areas, I didn't really think about it much. But now that you mention it, I suspect that for Solaris we should add "-R$dir" in addition to "-L$dir". Right? Are there any other OS's that need "-R"? John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
