specifying library locations to ./configure ?

[Sigbjorn Finne]

Hi,

try using the environment variable LDFLAGS, e.g,

   foo$ LDFLAGS=-L/path/to/where/libreadline/and/libncurses/live ./configure

I believe that's all there's to it, but am currently unable to verify.

hth
--sigbjorn

----- Original Message -----
From: "Duncan Coutts" <dcoutts@cray.com>
To: <hugs-users@haskell.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2001 10:23
Subject: specifying library locations to ./configure ?


> Hi,
>
> I can report a sucessful build on mips-sgi-irix6.5 (if anyone's
> interested)
>
> My problem is about how to cope with a missing libreadline.a
> For some reason (don't ask me why), the system I work with does not have
> readline installed - and I'm not root! I have a working copy of
> libreadline.a locally and would like to use that (so that the lack of line
> editing and command history in hugs doesn't drive me crazy!).
> Is there anyway to tell the ./configure script to look for readline in a
> specific location, or can I hack the makefile afterwards, or can I tell
> the loader to search an extra location?
>
> Any advice much apreciated.
> I'm sure you know how irritating a minor thing like this can be. :-)
>
> Duncan
>
>
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