[gst-devel] what is the meaning of using '-LLIBDIR'?

[Stefan Kost]

Hello rong

from all you prvious post to me it looks like you make it all a bit too
diffucult for yourself.
To build all of gstreamer it should not be needed to tweak variables
like CFLAGS, LDFLAGS and LIBDIR.
Just use a normal configure and use the same --prefix argument.
The configure script finds out about what to add to CFLAGS and LDFLAGS
from pkg-config files.
Do "echo $PKG_CONFIG_PATH" to check which directoriues it contains. Also
search for files ending on "*.pc" to see if you hve any of those in
other locations (e.g. under $HOME). If so add those directories to you
PKG_CONFIG_PATH and rerun configure.

Stefan

rong wang wrote:
> excerpted from log from "make install" of
> gst-plugins-good.0.10
> Libraries have been installed in:
>    /home/yge1/gst/gst/lib/gstreamer-0.10
>
> If you ever happen to want to link against installed
> libraries
> in a given directory, LIBDIR, you must either use
> libtool, and
> specify the full pathname of the library, or use the
> `-LLIBDIR'
> flag during linking and do at least one of the
> following:
>    - add LIBDIR to the `LD_LIBRARY_PATH' environment
> variable
>      during execution
>    - add LIBDIR to the `LD_RUN_PATH' environment
> variable
>      during linking
>    - use the `-Wl,--rpath -Wl,LIBDIR' linker flag
>    - have your system administrator add LIBDIR to
> `/etc/ld.so.conf'
>
> See any operating system documentation about shared
> libraries for
> more information, such as the ld(1) and ld.so(8)
> manual pages.
>
>
> what is the meaning of "use the `-LLIBDIR'
> flag during linking"? where I should use -LLIBDIR?
> during configuration? Could you give an example?
>
>
> Thanks
>
>
>