[gnu-sol-discuss] [companion-discuss] setting PATHs for headers/libs - GNU Autoconf, Automake

[Alan Coopersmith]

Joao Miguel Ferreira wrote:
>> Same as with Linux:
>>
>> -I/usr/local/include
>>
> 
>> -L path-to-library-at-link-time -R path-to-library-at-runtime
>>
> 
> Hi Bart,
> 
> thank you... but...
> 
> my test applications are also instaled with the GNU Autotools. My
> problem is that, during the ./configure phase, configure can't find the
> header files in /usr/local/include. If, I install the header files
> in /usr/include configure will find them and things work just fine.
> 
> The same goes for the lib. If I install the lib in /usr/lib the Solaris
> loader is able to find the lib and run the program. But if I put it in
> the default Autotools dir /usr/local/lib the Solaris "ld" will not find
> it... :(

The autotools accept variables to set these - CFLAGS, CPPFLAGS, LDFLAGS,
etc. - see
http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/html_node/Compilers-and-Options.html

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