Re: to: Mingzhou Sun

[John Heidemann <johnh@ISI.EDU>]

On Fri, 04 Jun 1999 14:55:18 +0200, "Luca" wrote: 
>Hi Mingzhou,
>I'm Luca (shared libraries problem on Linux Red Hat 6.0). 
>Thanks for your answer, but I still have a little problem: 
>If I set my LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable to include /usr/local/lib Ns works correctly, so, as you suggested me, I tried to re-link Ns adding
>
>-R/usr/local/lib
> 
> to the LIB=... entry in Makfile, but the linker gives me the folloving error:
>
>c++: "-R/usr/local/lib" option not recognized
>
>What does the -R option mean? I tried also to replace it with "-L/usr/local/lib" :in this case it compiles ok but Ns still don't work (can't find libotcl.so).
>What have I to do to avoid setting the LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable each time I use Ns?
>Thanks a lot!!

Another option for folks having shared library trouble is to just
delete the shared libaries (.so) before using them.  IF there is a
static library (.a), then ns will link against that and you don't have
to mess with LD_LIBRARY_PATH.  (This requires that the static library
exist, of course.)

   -John Heidemann