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[David B. Anderson]

In article <5798 at udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU>, mccalpin at vax1.acs.udel.EDU (John D Mccalpin) writes:
> In article <9002281129.aa20377 at SMOKE.BRL.MIL> JORDAN at gmr.COM writes:
[stuff deleted]
> Some notes on this technique:
> (1) All of the SGI machines that I have used automagically search
>     /usr/local/lib, so the -L/usr/local/lib option is not needed here.
Yes.    John is right.     4D ld searches:
	/lib/   
	/usr/lib/cmplrs/cc(vers#)
	/usr/lib/   
	/usr/local/lib
in that order (by default).   We never create the /usr/lib/cmplrs directory.

Regards,
[ David B. Anderson  Silicon Graphics  (415)335-1548  davea at sgi.com ]