5 Oct
2010
5 Oct
'10
7:34 a.m.
On Tuesday 05 October 2010, Watkins, Bradley wrote:
Hi Bradley,
you're right, either use pkg-config or a provided tool from the package (like
mysql_config for mysql) in the Makefile would be the most compatible way to
get the correct library name, path and flags for the compilation.
Viele Grüße,
Henning
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That will, almost certainly, break lua compilation on non-CentOS distros
as well as other platforms.
The correct way, at least on Linux (I don't personally do much
cross-platform work), is to use pkg-config to both test for the correct
version and get the linker flags.
The output on my Fedora workstation, for example:
[user@workstation]$ pkg-config --libs lua
-llua -lm -ldl
[user@workstation]$