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  From: David Lloyd <lloy0076@rebel.net.au>
  To  : David Newall <davidn@rebel.net.au>
  Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 16:20:53 +0930

Re: Compiling Berkeley DB Programs

David!

> Normally one would write, "gcc -o vote -O2 -march-athlon -ldb vote.o"

Thanks.

I picked myself up on that one by reading the man pages for the
umpteenth time.

According to them:

1) -lname

Expands to libname.a

Hence, -ldb expands to libdb.a

It appears I could have specified libdb.a by its full path name but
without the -l too.

Thanks for the help.

DSL

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