"Magnus Hagander" <mha@sollentuna.net> writes:
> It will work just fine when you don't, as long as you include the
> directory where the lib file is in your LIB path. Which is the same way
> the linker commandline option works. I don't see how that makes it
> useless, though.
If you have to include (the equivalent of) -L in your link command
anyway, I don't see where being able to leave off -l buys much.
regards, tom lane