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lib*.so vs. lib*.a
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel M. Drucker)
Mon Nov 11 15:35:48 1996
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 15:25:55 -0500 (EST)
From: "Daniel M. Drucker" <dmd@student.umass.edu>
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I am using gcc-2.7.2-9 and ld.so-1.7.14-4 under RH 4.0 with all update
rpms applied.
I'm sure this is a FAQ, but I spent the last half hour searching for
the answer in the mailing list archives, etc, to no avail.
% gcc -lX11 foo.c
ld: cannot open -lX11: No such file or directory
But...
/usr/X11R6/libX11.a exists
/usr/X11R6/libX11.so exists
And /usr/X11R6/lib is in /etc/ld.so.conf (and I've run ldconfig).
Also -- gcc NEVER finds .so libraries. In fact, the man page
specifically says that -lfoo will ONLY look for libfoo.a, not libfoo.so.
Help!
[ Daniel M. Drucker / dmd@3e.org ]
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