OS X and shared Libraries

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Jan 14, 2008, at 08:11, Matrix Mole wrote:

> elabsjng at mac.com wrote:
>
> | Thanks for the reply. Maybe I misunderstand but I though, on  
> Linux, the
> | run-time linker had a set of search paths to look for shared  
> libraries?
>
> I might be wrong then. I always thought that there was some kind of  
> lib
> directory option in the ./configure script that could be set, if not
> it'd default (usually to /usr/local or whatever had been coded by the
> programmer). For systems such as macports, they'd have set the library
> path to /opt/local/lib I believe. Unfortunately, my programming
> experience and knowledge is extremely limited, and I might be  
> mistaking
> shared libraries with runtime dependent libraries. I'm hoping if I'm
> incorrect then someone can show me where, but this is how I've
> understood it for a while now.

I guess Simon is talking about ld.conf that exists on Linux, and for  
which there is no Mac OS X equivalent.