Re: [xml] Problems linking

[Igor Zlatkovic <igor zlatkovic com>]

Daniel Veillard wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 02:44:56AM +0100, Igor Zlatkovic wrote:
>
> > Whatever you think you know about the location of your libxml2, Unix knows 
> > better ;-)
>
>
>   xml2-config is the solution.
>     xml2-config --cflags must be used to get the compiler flags
>     xml2-config --libs   must be used to get the library dependancies.
>
> xml2-config is built as part of the configure process and installed 
> as part of "make install". It should always have the "correct" values.

Aye, that is true. The pkg-config thing can also be used for that purpose. 
But, that wasn't the question :-)

Nick's question was, as I perceived it, how did the linker find some library 
libaaa.so, after a -laaa parameter appeared on its command-line.

That has nothing to do with libxml and actually puts the whole thing 
off-topic, but I felt in a mood to answer anyway ;-)

Ciao,
Igor