On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, Patrick K Notz wrote:

I'me trying to build ginac and am having problems getting 'configure' to find the readline and cln libraries. I've installed them in directories (non-standard since I'm not root) under my account. I just can't figure out how to tell configure/make to look there. I've tried the suggestion in Section 3.2 of the tutorial but the syntax given doesn't work. I've tried adding "LDFLAGS = $(LDFLAGS) /my/lib/dir" to all of the Makefile.in files but no luck again. I'm not familiar with autoconf so I'm not sure which files I should try tweeking. Can you offer any suggestions?

You shoudn't have to tweek Makefiles or Makefile.ins. Just saying $ make LDFLAGS="$(LDFLAGS) -L/my/lib/dir" (and so on) gets the job done. Also, your syntax, at least as you wrote it, is screwed up---no -L. Note that on the shell (as arguments to make) there mustn't be spaces on both sides of the = , it won't be recognized this way! Please consult section 3.2 again, it is correct there. Maybe the verbose output from $ libtool --finish is helpful: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Libraries have been installed in: /usr/tmp/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 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keep on tryin' -rbk. -- Richard Kreckel <Richard.Kreckel@Uni-Mainz.DE> <http://wwwthep.physik.uni-mainz.de/~kreckel/>