It's just telling you how to link your program into the libraries,
but since you don't have a program that you are trying to link in,
there's really no need to do anything at all.
They should probably add a "if you don't know what I'm talking bout,
just forget it" line there.
That is, I assume that you are installing the libraries to make some
other program happy. If so, it should already know how to find them.
On Mon, 27 Mar 2000, you wrote:
| Hello all,
|
| First off, thanks to all who contribute both your time and patience.
| Without you, choice would become a meaningless concept. I have installed
| "kicq" on Linux 6.1 (Mandrake). I have completed the "confiqure,"
| "complile," and "install." I have copied all files to the appropriate
| directories. I was given this message, copied at the bottom of this
| mail, and I am a bit uncertain about what it is telling me to do. I can
| see I need some kind of '"environment variable," and something entered
| into my "path." Am I to to a "ln," and do I run the link with a switch,
| "LLIBDIR?" I have been looking at man pages, and I have been back on the
| kicq page but uncertainty lingers. Any help rendered would be greatly
| appreciated.
|
| Thanks,
| Craig Woods
|
| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| Libraries have been installed in:
| /usr/local/lib
|
| To link against installed libraries in a given directory, LIBDIR,
| you must use the `-LLIBDIR' flag during linking.
|
| You will also need to do at least one of the following:
| - add LIBDIR to the `LD_LIBRARY_PATH' environment variable during
| execution
| - add LIBDIR to the `LD_RUN_PATH' environment variable
| during linking
| - use the `-Wl,--rpath -Wl,LIBDIR' linker flag
| - have your system administrator add LIBDIR to `/etc/ld.so.conf'
|
| See any operating system documentation about shared libraries for more
| information, such as the ld(1) and ld.so(8) manual pages.
| ----------------------------------------------------------------
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