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diff --git a/docs/INSTALL.md b/docs/INSTALL.md index c5326e8da..7fe3d879a 100644 --- a/docs/INSTALL.md +++ b/docs/INSTALL.md @@ -149,6 +149,18 @@ conflicting identical symbol names. When you build with multiple TLS backends, you can select the active one at run-time when curl starts up. +## configure finding libs in wrong directory + +When the configure script checks for third-party libraries, it adds those +directories to the `LDFLAGS` variable and then tries linking to see if it +works. When successful, the found directory is kept in the `LDFLAGS` variable +when the script continues to execute and do more tests and possibly check for +more libraries. + +This can make subsequent checks for libraries wrongly detect another +installation in a directory that was previously added to `LDFLAGS` by another +library check. + # Windows ## Building Windows DLLs and C runtime (CRT) linkage issues |