Re: GD Shared library confusion

> At 08:03 AM 3/2/2002 -0800, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > > > >If the system also has a /usr/lib/libgd.so then as of 4.2.0 the -lgd is > > > >picking up this shared library. > > > > > > > >I suppose the only way around this is to use a full path to the static > > > >library in the link line instead of -lgd. Does a full path library link > > > >work for a shared library as well? I didn't think it did. > > > > > > Nope it doesn't but you can use -L/path/to/shared_lib and then -lgd. > > > >I don't think a -L/path is going to override the LD_LIBRARY_PATH though > >for a shared library. > > No it doesn't for loading. I thought you were talking about the build > itself. I think there's a way to embed the actual LD_LIBRARY_PATH in the > binary but I forgot how :) You can with -R, but that doesn't solve this problem. I don't want to remove /usr/lib from the link path. The problem really is that when you give configure a path to some specific place for a static library, but you also have that library as a shared library in /usr/lib things get messy because we do the configure check against the located static library explicitly, but then we do a -L/specific/place -lgd which ends up linking in the different shared library from /usr/lib. It isn't just for GD this happens, it just so happens to be more common for people to have two copies of GD. -Rasmus