svgalib file structures

[James Kennedy]

Nevermind my last question.  I think I have it pretty much sorted out now:        1.  pp 427-430 of "Running Linux" seems to give the           information which I need regarding the syntax of           gcc -o prog prog.c -lvga             What I had not understood is that "lvga"                   1.  points to a _library_ not to object code                      directly                   2.  a "lib" preclitic, or prefix, is presumed                   3.  There are multiple copies of libvga.so.1.4.2                      and that "gecko" actually does NOT access the                      one in ../sharedlib, but uses instead a copy                      in                           /usr/local/lib                    4.  LD_LIBRARY_PATH is an "environment                       variable" which can tell gcc where to look                       besides its normal default paths for                       librairies.   Hope that I haven't taken up too much of your time.  On my end, the process of putting a question down in writing may have helped me sort things out for myself.  File structure is for me certainly one of the most difficult aspects of Linux, especially since programs such as gcc are so facile in dealing with it, and often have things built in which surprise me in their subtlety.