Simple makefile question, shared libraries

I link to a bunch of static and shared libraries. The static ones are easy:

Code:

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-L $(HOME)/lib -L $(LIBDIRS) $(TRANSACT_LIBS) $(MPI_LIBS)

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Pretty straight forward. TRANSACT_LIBS corresponds to a bucnh of static libraries (-lnuma -lutil etc etc etc)

However, for MPI_LIBS, these are .so files, and I have to put the full path. When I try to do -L dir something.so something2.so .... it says it can't find the .so files.

How do I specify a directory to search for the .so files? I have the appropriate directory appended to my LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable...

There's a foreach function in make that you can use. I don't recall the syntax off hand; you'll have to look it up.