Re: AC_CHECK_LIB: Library is found on build host but is not on a target host

[Eric Blake]

On 08/23/2010 02:26 PM, Sergio Belkin wrote:
> 2010/8/23 Eric Blake<address@hidden>:
> > [please keep the list in the loop]

[I reiterate - I do NOT want these mails coming only to me, when I have 
asked for them to go to the list]

> > At this point, all I can guess is that you haven't installed the libraries
> > correctly for your system.  Can you do a simple command line test (rather
> > than through autoconf) to rule out whether 'gcc ... -lmysqlclient' works in
> > isolation for you?  Or maybe you are trying to access a symbol that is
> > exported in newer versions of the library, but not in the version that you
> > have installed?
> >
> > --
>
>
> Yes I could run:
>
> g++ -o testUpThreadWorkDistributor -ansi -mtune=i686 -march=i686
> -Iinclude -Wall -Wno-deprecated -g -DDEBUG -ggdb -L/usr/lib/mysql
> testUpThreadWorkDistributor.cc libUpTools.a -lpthread -lmysqlclient
> -lcrypto -lssl /usr/lib/libresolv.a

Ah - the difference is the presence of -L/usr/lib/mysql in the working 
command line.  For your configure test to work, you'd also have to 
provide that same -L option to LDFLAGS prior to using AC_CHECK_LIB (or 
the better AC_SEARCH_LIBS).

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