order of discovering libraries in libtool

[Marty Leisner]

I'm building kde 3.3.0/kdelibs.

They're using libtool 1.5a, in the distribution.

Some of their tools needed a newer aspell...I'm on redhat9.

So I built and installed aspell 0.50.5 (don't know much about aspell)
and installed it into /usr/gnu.

What happened is libtool INSISTED on using the one in /usr/lib...

Going into libtool, -laspell was specified, but
/usr/lib/libaspell.la 
was picked up (instead of /usr/gnu/lib/libaspell.la).

After a lot of investigation, it seems -laspell was being translated
into an absolute path, and the rules libtool used are not the same
as ld.

Setting LIBRARY_PATH doesn't seem to help, adding a -L<path>
did help!!

It looks like libtool does not honor LIBRARY_PATH.
If it doesn't, it should.

Marty Leisner
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