freebsd stable - Dec 2004 - [Fwd: Cannot find libraries in /usr/local/lib even though they are in hints files]

FreeBSD satellite.siad.net 4.10-STABLE FreeBSD 4.10-STABLE #0: Mon Jul

19 00:39:31 PDT 2004

Cannot find libraries in /usr/local/lib even thought they are in the 
hints file. Is there something else I need to do?
satellite% ld -o hello -lmpeg hello.o
/usr/libexec/elf/ld: cannot find -lmpeg

satellite% ldconfig -r | grep mpeg
       464:-lmpeg.1 => /usr/local/lib/libmpeg.so.1


satellite% ldconfig -r | more
/var/run/ld-elf.so.hints:
       search directories: 
/usr/lib:/usr/lib/compat:/usr/X11R6/lib:/usr/local/lib:/usr/local/lib/compat:/usr/local/lib/mysql:/usr/local/lib/
compat/pkg:/usr/local/lib/pth:/usr/local/lib/wine:/usr/local/lib/kde3


satellite% ll /usr/local/lib/libmpeg.a
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  132902 Apr 11  2001 /usr/local/lib/libmpeg.a

Using a library in /usr/lib works:
satellite% ld -o hello -lpam hello.o
/usr/libexec/elf/ld: warning: cannot find entry symbol _start; 
defaulting to 080481c0
hello.o: In function `main':
hello.o(.text+0x25): undefined reference to `puts'

It also works if I manually add the library path
satellite% ld -o hello -lmpeg -L/usr/local/lib hello.o
/usr/libexec/elf/ld: warning: cannot find entry symbol _start; 
defaulting to 080481c8
hello.o: In function `main':

On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 02:13:18AM -0500, Don L. Belcher
wrote:
> Cannot find libraries in /usr/local/lib even thought they are in the 
> hints file. Is there something else I need to do?
Use the -L option for gcc (and other utilities) to specify the
location to search for libraries to be linked.

ldconfig is for run-time linking, not for compile-time linking.

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