Understanding LA files

[talexb-SBdzbUvMQDunS0EtXVNi6w at public.gmane.org]

On Tue, 31 Aug 2004, Chris Gow wrote:

> Last week while trying to compile some software (kde-pim to be exact) I
>   kept getting errors doing a make. g++ kept complaining about missing
> la files (libgthread, libglib and a third that I can't recall off the
> top of my head ATM). Anyway, g++ was complaining that it couldn't find
> the files in /opt/gnome/lib. But they live(d) in /usr/lib. What I am
> trying to figure out is how or what told g++ to look in /opt/gnome/lib
> for those la files?

The first two places I'd look would be the in the make file and in your
environment.

Alex


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