Trying to use libidn in a port but get this error ld: library not found for -lidn

Brandon Allbery allbery.b at gmail.com
Sun Aug 16 12:46:51 PDT 2015


On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 3:43 PM, Ben Greenfield <ben at cogs.com> wrote:

> I think I fixed the problem by adding -L/opt/local/lib to the LDFLAGS in
> macosx specific section.
> Does that sound like the expected fix?
>

Depends. If it's based on autoconf then you sometimes have to read through
all the aclocal stuff to find the right place to bodge it in; for a simple
Makefile, just adding to LDFLAGS is usually sufficient. (If it's cmake,
$DEITY have mercy on you.)

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