Building a sample application with libraries located in nonstandard directory

From	ArifulHossain tuhin <etothepowerpi@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.c
Subject	Building a sample application with libraries located in nonstandard directory
Date	2012-01-07 03:26 -0800
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I have built a library. Say its libexample.la. Now i want a build a sample application. The sample application comes with a configure script. When i run the configure script it fails reporting that it could not find the library it needs. So i need to supply the libexample.la's directory information in the configure script somehow so that it can find the library and build the application. I need a general way of doing this, because i stumble upon this problem several times in past. 

I always solved it through googling, and some tweaking with no clear understanding. I have idea that may be it can be done through defining Environment variables. But any general way of doing it? i mean to supply this information to the configure script in a way which will be applicable to all other scenario ?
Thanks in advance.

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Building a sample application with libraries located in nonstandard directory ArifulHossain tuhin <etothepowerpi@gmail.com> - 2012-01-07 03:26 -0800
  Re: Building a sample application with libraries located in nonstandard directory ec429 <ec429@cam.ac.uk> - 2012-01-07 14:15 +0000
    Re: Building a sample application with libraries located in nonstandard directory gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2012-01-07 16:26 +0000
    Re: Building a sample application with libraries located in nonstandard directory jt@toerring.de (Jens Thoms Toerring) - 2012-01-07 17:40 +0000
  Re: Building a sample application with libraries located in nonstandard directory Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2012-01-07 17:50 +0000
    Re: Building a sample application with libraries located in nonstandard directory Seebs <usenet-nospam@seebs.net> - 2012-01-07 21:24 +0000
      [OT] Bashing on autotools (Was: Building a sample application with libraries located in nonstandard directory) ec429 <ec429@cam.ac.uk> - 2012-01-08 05:19 +0000
        Re: [OT] Bashing on autotools (Was: Building a sample application with libraries located in nonstandard directory) Dr Nick <3-nospam@temporary-address.org.uk> - 2012-01-08 09:15 +0000
          Re: [OT] Bashing on autotools Markus Wichmann <nullplan@gmx.net> - 2012-01-08 23:09 +0100
            Re: [OT] Bashing on autotools Dr Nick <3-nospam@temporary-address.org.uk> - 2012-01-09 07:53 +0000
            Re: [OT] Bashing on autotools Seebs <usenet-nospam@seebs.net> - 2012-01-09 19:21 +0000
    Re: Building a sample application with libraries located in nonstandard directory falk@rahul.net (Edward A. Falk) - 2012-01-08 07:13 +0000
    Re: Building a sample application with libraries located in nonstandard directory ArifulHossain tuhin <etothepowerpi@gmail.com> - 2012-01-09 02:12 -0800
      Re: Building a sample application with libraries located in nonstandard directory Markus Wichmann <nullplan@gmx.net> - 2012-01-09 15:00 +0100

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