On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
Mats Wichmann wrote:
Depends on what you mean by "default" :-)
What I'm working on is an automatic system for finding 3rd party libs to link against, e.g. say I have an extension which links against OpenSSL I want the setup.py to automatically find the .so and .h files.
Have you looked at scipy/scipy_distutils/system_info.py? It does exactly this thing for various 3rd party software like atlas,blas,lapack,X11,fftw,etc. and is meant to be easily extendable. See http://scipy.net/cgi-bin/viewcvsx.cgi/*checkout*/scipy/scipy_distutils/syste...
For any given Linux system, the linker will search libraries in locations built in to the compilation system (I think your list is correct there), plus whatever's listed in /etc/ld.so.conf. Sometimes assisted or hampered by what's in /etc/ld.so.cache :-{
Does the linker search there too or only the dynamic one at load time ?
I think /etc/ld.so.conf is looked during the load time, linker never uses it. HTH, Pearu