Re: [Mingw-msys] Re: gcc/ld and /lib

[Earnie B. <ear...@ya...>]

wa...@da... wrote:
> 
> The reason is, that I look for a place to put lib's into it, where 
> the configure scripts are looking for. For example termcap.a or 
> tcl/tk8.x.a and so on. If I put this in /usr/local/lib I must give an 
> -L/usr/local/lib. This works - but in configure scripts I have not so 
> much influence to extend the linker search path without to change 
> massiv in the script. May be I am wrong.
> What do you mean, make it sense to extend the path in changing the 
> spec file of gcc?
> 

All should be merry if you --prefix=/mingw.

You should be able to use
   configure LDADD=-L/usr/local/lib  (autoconf versions >= 2.50)
   LDADD=-L/usr/local/lib configure  (all autoconf versions)
if your package's configury is setup correctly.

Earnie.