Cannot find libfreespace.so.0 with non default install paths

[Chris Conroy]

Something is wrong with the libfreespace-examples build process

Steps to reproduce:

configure libfreespace with --prefix=$HOME/libfreespace (or any non default path)
configure libfreespace-examples similarly, and point it at libfreespace

e.g.
./configure --prefix=/home/cconroy/libfreespace/ CPPFLAGS=-I"/home/cconroy/libfreespace/include/" LDFLAGS=-I"/home/cconroy/libfreespace/lib/"

The resulting binary doesn't look in the right path for libfreespace.so:

cconroy@conroy-linux:~/libfreespace/bin$ ldd discovery_example
 linux-vdso.so.1 => (0x00007fffc7dff000)
 libfreespace.so.0 => not found
 libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x00007fc2bf6c3000)
 /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007fc2bfa35000)

[Frank Hunleth (fhunleth)]

I assume that you don't have your LD_LIBRARY_PATH set to the install location?

[Chris Conroy (chrisconroy)]

Nope. Though setting the LD_LIBRARY_PATH is a workaround (not a fix) for this bug.

[Chris Conroy (chrisconroy)]

Ideally our resident autoconf master (hi JT!) can solve this via a 'with-libfreespace=/path/to/libfreespace' option.. I believe that's the standard way of handling this sort of thing.