From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mohammed Khalid Ansari Subject: static or shared Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 16:49:29 +0530 (IST) Sender: linux-c-programming-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux c programming mailing list Hi, If /usr/lib contains both static and shared libraries of the same name eg odbc, which library compiler is going to take if I do.. gcc file.c -lodbc How do I explicitly I define which library to take during compilation. -- ************************************************************************** Mohammed Khalid Ansari Tel (res) : 0091-022-3051360 Assistant Manager II (off) : 0091-022-2024641 National Centre for Software Technology Fax : 0091-022-2049573 8th flr,Air India Build. Nariman Point, E-Mail : khalid@ncst.ernet.in Mumbai 400021. Homepage : http://soochak.ncst.ernet.in/~khalid **************************************************************************