[ On Friday, October 22, 1999 at 09:36:26 (-0400), Bill Sommerfeld wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: pkg/8649: Build of windowmaker fails 
>
> > After pkg_delete'ing the old version, the compile succseeded. This never
> > was the case before. For no other package.
> > 
> > Thanks for all that sent suggestions
> 
> I saw the same problem today when building pilot-link on arm32..
> sigh..

This sounds very much like the issue I reported in tech-pkg.

The build is finding an older installed library *before* the local
libraries becuase of the way bsd.pkg.mk prepends "-L${PREFIX}/lib" to
LDFLAGS instead of appending it after any "-L" options the package might
add itself.

I'm beginning to think that "-L${PREFIX}/lib" should *never* be added to
LDFLAGS by bsd.pkg.mk and that if any locally installed libraries are
required from some other package, and if ``this'' package's
configuration and build system isn't smart enough to find them on its
own then LDFLAGS should only ever be modified directly in its Makefiles
by a patch, never by putting it in the environment or on a command-line.

I.e. it is *never* correct to prepend "-L${PREFIX}/lib" arbitrarily to
the value of LDFLAGS.  It should always be *appended*, if used at all.

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