Hi
I am maintaining links browser. People complain to me that they can't compile
it in graphics mode on OpenBSD because it can't find libraries that are placed
in /usr/local/lib and includes in /usr/local/include.
The problem with libpng can be solved by using pkg-config, problem with libjpeg
and libtiff can't be solved because you do not distribute .pc files for them.
I'd like to know:
Why does your distribution place libraries and includes to a place where
compiler can't find them?
What's the correct standard solution for a software developer to find
libraries? I thought that if gcc -llibrary works, library is presend and if gcc
-llibrary doesn't work, library isn't present.
It is possible to add -I/usr/local/include -L/usr/local/lib to compiler flags,
I even distributed links with that for some time, and it turned out that on
other unix systems -L/usr/local/lib reversed search (first /usr/local/lib and
then /usr/lib, while it used to be /usr/lib first) and caused linking failures.
Mikulas
