How do I link with Aquaterm library for an external build?

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Jan 31, 2013, at 02:21, Jerry wrote:

> On Jan 30, 2013, at 3:42 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> 
>> If you want those three values to be in CFLAGS, you'll have to enclose them in quotes:
>> 
>> CFLAGS="-F/opt/local/Library/Frameworks -framework AquaTerm"
> 
> Thanks, Ryan.
> 
> I entered this line with quotes in my script followed by
> export CFLAGS
> (and removed the symlink I mentioned earlier) but Aquaterm was not found--PLplot still builds without the Aquaterm option. There are lots of occurrences of things like this which I don't understand:
> 
> cd /usr/local/plplot_build_dir/examples/c && /usr/bin/gcc   -F/opt/local/Library/Frameworks -framework AquaTerm  -I/Users/me/Documents/Programs/Ada/Code/Bindings/PLplot/plplot_svn/plplot/include -I/usr/local/plplot_build_dir/include -I/Users/me/Documents/Programs/Ada/Code/Bindings/PLplot/plplot_svn/plplot/lib/qsastime    -DUSINGDLL -o CMakeFiles/x33c.dir/x33c.c.o   -c /Users/me/Documents/Programs/Ada/Code/Bindings/PLplot/plplot_svn/plplot/examples/c/x33c.c
> i686-apple-darwin11-llvm-gcc-4.2: -framework: linker input file unused because linking not done
> i686-apple-darwin11-llvm-gcc-4.2: AquaTerm: linker input file unused because linking not done

I'm not an expert on writing Makefiles or CMakeLists.txt; I tend to mostly package up software others have written that already have correctly-written build scripts.

As far as I know, "-framework Foo" is to frameworks as "-lfoo" is to libraries, so it belongs in LDFLAGS and not CFLAGS.