Hello Bruno, * Bruno Haible wrote on Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 02:51:08PM CET: > > A while ago someone said that if in a build directory I have a (not yet > installed) ../lib/libfoo.la, to link with this library I should *not* use > > libtool ... -L../lib -lfoo > > but rather mention the .la file explicitly: > > libtool ... -L../lib ../lib/libfoo.la > or > libtool ... ../lib/libfoo.la
You should use the last one, none of the others. > Is it true that references to non-yet-installed libool libraries should not be > made with -l? If so, it would be worth to document this in the libtool > documentation. I didn't find it there. Quoting info libtool "Linking executables": (1) However, you should avoid using `-L' or `-l' flags to link against an uninstalled libtool library. Just specify the relative path to the `.la' file, such as `../intl/libintl.la'. This is a design decision to eliminate any ambiguity when linking against uninstalled shared libraries. This has been documented for eons. Cheers, Ralf _______________________________________________ Bug-libtool mailing list Bug-libtool@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-libtool
