[FFmpeg-user] --extra-ldflags not working

[Aaron Boxer]

On Sun, Mar 27, 2016 at 10:04 AM, Aaron Boxer <boxerab at gmail.com> wrote:

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>
> On Sun, Mar 27, 2016 at 9:51 AM, Carl Eugen Hoyos <cehoyos at ag.or.at>
> wrote:
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>> Aaron Boxer <boxerab <at> gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> > But this fails with a "libopenjpeg not found" error.
>>
>> Is this the only thing printed by configure or did it
>> print anything else?
>>
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> What is also strange is this:
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> After I make the symlink, then configure works if I *don't* have
> --enable-ldflags="=L/usr/local/lib"
> in the configure command.
>
> If I do have it, then configure fails.
>


So, how does

check_lib openjpeg-2.1/openjpeg.h opj_version -lopenjp2 -DOPJ_STATIC

operate?  What is it looking for, and how can it fail?

Thanks,
Aaron