[vlc-devel] lib include order

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Le vendredi 17 avril 2009, Sébastien Escudier a écrit :
> Hi
>
> I have two versions of a lib (libavcodec).
> One is installed in /usr and one in vlc contrib path.
> If I use the contrib pkgconfig, then it correctly sets
> -Lextras/contrib/lib flag.
> But durring the compilation, this flag is *after* -L/usr one, so the
> linker will use /usr libavcodec.
> Maybe it would be better to have it before ?

I'm not sure it's cleanly fixable. You might have the opposite problem. 
Or the initial -L may come from something we don't have direct control 
on (libtool or another pkg-config).

In any case, we cannot modify raw flags inside Makefiles. You have to 
patch configure.ac.

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