I have recently taken to moving many pieces of my system into /opt . I have come across an annoying little problem with *.la files when I'm doing this - Specifically, when I install a package which includes *.la files, no other package that depends on those files can find them there. Is there an envvar that can be set to tell things to look elsewhere for these (much like the various FOO_PATH vars)? At the moment, I've been using the inideal workaround of linking all of these *.la into /usr/lib , but this strikes me as rather kludgy when other files that live in the same directories are handled easily by LD_LIBRARY_PATH . Unfortunately, "la" is too general an abbreviation for google to have been any use here: for example, "la files" gets me a whole lot of hits about Los Angeles, which is unuseful.
Does anyone know where I might look for a solution to this? And, can someone tell me what the heck *.la files *are*? -- Lennon Victor Cook "He who receives an idea from me receives without lessening, as he who lights his candle at mine receives light without darkening" - Thomas Jefferson -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
