System library paths & header paths

From: Marshall (mjmcmullen_at_cox.net)
Date: 07/29/03 

Date: 29 Jul 2003 01:06:28 -0700

Hello everyone, I am very new to programming on Linux, and hope you
can give me some advice. I have searched high and low on the best way
to accomplish this, without getting any solid answers and hope to see
how everyone else manages this problem.

I installed Motif so I can do some X Windows programming, but the
libraries were installed to /usr/X11R6/lib and the include files were
installed to /usr/X11R6/include.

The problem is these paths are not searched by default on my system
(Slackware Linux 9.0) when I compile and/or link my C program. So
what is the best way to handle this _system-wide_ ? I realize I can
add -L and -I arguments in my Makefile, but this does not seem like a
permanent solution to me. The best suggestion I found (link at
bottom) was to set the shell variables gcc references as so:
export LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/X11R6/lib
export C_INCLUDE_PATH=/usr/X11R6/include

Does anyone have a more permanent solution to this?

Thanks for your help!
Marshall

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