gcc - ld cannot find -l<library>

Question

I am having trouble installing pyipopt on ubuntu 12.04. During linking, I receive the error:

/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lcoinhsl

Even though I know that this library is installed and the .so and .la files are available in /home/mostafa/MyBuilds/CoinIpopt/build/lib/

does anyone have a solution for this?

below is the complete return of running setup.py build:

root@ubuntu:~/MyBuilds/pyipopt# sudo python setup.py build
running build
running build_ext
building 'pyipopt' extension
gcc -pthread -fno-strict-aliasing -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O2 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -fPIC -I/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/numpy/core/include -I/home/mostafa/MyBuilds/CoinIpopt/build/include/coin/ -I/usr/include/python2.7 -c src/callback.c -o build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.7/src/callback.o
gcc -pthread -fno-strict-aliasing -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O2 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -fPIC -I/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/numpy/core/include -I/home/mostafa/MyBuilds/CoinIpopt/build/include/coin/ -I/usr/include/python2.7 -c src/pyipopt.c -o build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.7/src/pyipopt.o
src/pyipopt.c: In function ‘set_intermediate_callback’:
src/pyipopt.c:452:15: warning: variable ‘myowndata’ set but not used [-Wunused-but-set-variable]
gcc -pthread -shared -Wl,-O1 -Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions -Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions -Wl,-z,relrobuild/temp.linux-x86_64-2.7/src/callback.o build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.7/src/pyipopt.o -L/home/mostafa/MyBuilds/CoinIpopt/build/lib/ -lipopt -lblas -lcoinhsl -lcoinmetis -llapack -ldl -lm -o build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/pyipopt.so -Wl,--rpath -Wl,/home/mostafa/MyBuilds/CoinIpopt/build/lib/
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lcoinhsl
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1

Answer 1

-Ldir
Add directory dir to the list of directories to be searched for -l.