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Re: [ft] Linking custom code to right Freetype version
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Werner LEMBERG |
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Re: [ft] Linking custom code to right Freetype version |
Date: |
Fri, 23 Jun 2017 07:06:57 +0200 (CEST) |
>> `make install' by default installs into `/usr/local'. I guess your
>> system is set up so that the dynamic linker looks into `/usr'
>> first. Since virtually all GNU/Linux platforms come with
>> `libfreetype' in `/usr', this version will be linked to. You can
>> use the `ldd' program to check which dynamic libraries your
>> application is using.
>
> /usr/local/lib normally has priority over /usr/lib (check
> your /etc/ld.so.conf and /etc/ld.so.conf.d/* setups).
My mistake. I didn't mean the dynamic linker at runtime but rather
the linker used during compilation, which also hardcodes the paths to
the DLLs. It propably helps to set a proper `-L' argument to the
application's compilation command.
Werner