Installing GMP in directory other than usr/local

[Jonathan A. Zylstra]

Zhang, John Ruoyu (John) wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I have a general question regarding installing GMP in a directory other than usr/local. After running ./configure --prefix=/somefolder and the other commands, gcc <source.c> -lgmp would not work. I hope I haven't missed something trivial in the manual.
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>Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>Regards,
>
>John Zhang
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By using ld --help, you can discover that adding the parameter '-L 
/path/to/lib/' would do the trick.
In addition, this won't be found in the GMP manual, but rather a manual 
on how to compile and link programs using gcc.

J. Zylstra
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