linking libraries without name prefix/suffix

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linking libraries without name prefix/suffix
\ k wayne (25 Oct 2007)
. \ John Love-Jensen (25 Oct 2007)

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Subject:	linking libraries without name prefix/suffix
Group:	Gcc-help
From:	k wayne
Date:	25 Oct 2007

hi,
i hope this is the right mailinglist for this, my apologies this is
not the case :)

however, i need to link (through invokation of g++, if possible) a
library that does not have the "libxxx.a" scheme, so i would like to
make g++ not prefix the library name with "lib" and suffix it with
".a". if i understood the gcc manual correctly, i could specify the
libarary without the "-l" option, but then the library paths (plus
those specified with "-L") would not be searched. unfortunately, i
need these paths to be searched, because i do not know the exact paths
of the libraries since i am trying to write a makefile for
compilation.
by the way, i'm trying hard to avoid external tools such as the
autotools, so i hope there is a way to solve my little problem in
another way :)

thank you in advance