Re: Linking with non-libtool libraries

[Dale E Martin]

> I have a fairly large project that consists of a number of executables
> and shared libraries, all built with autoconf/automake/libtool. Most of
> the executables also depend on thirdparty shared libraries that are
> either not built with libtool, or they were, in a separate tree and then
> copied to a thirdparty area.

> My question is the wrapper scripts that libtool generates for executables
> sets up the LD_LIBRARY_PATH properly for all of the libtool libraries
> that I built, but it does not add components to the LD_LIBRARY_PATH for
> these thirdparty libraries. So I wind up having to modify LD_LIBRARY_PATH
> before running these wrapper scripts.

Have you tried adding "libfoo_la_LIBADD=-lone -ltwo" to add these
dependencies to your libraries, and "foo_LDADD=-lone -ltwo" to add them to
your executables?

Take care,
     Dale
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