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From: davea@quasar.wpd.sgi.com (David B. Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: ar - the archiver
Summary: ld does search /usr/local/lib !
Message-ID: <52410@sgi.sgi.com>
Date: 2 Mar 90 01:42:18 GMT
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In article <5798@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU>, mccalpin@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (John D Mccalpin) writes:
> In article <9002281129.aa20377@SMOKE.BRL.MIL> JORDAN@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@sgi.com ]