>>-L/usr/local/lib/libtiff.a> > > shouldn't that be a small l, i.e.> > -l/usr/local/lib/libtiff.a
No, when you specify explicitely a static .a library,
there is no flag before it. It's just like linking with an
object .o file. The -lNAME is equivalent to linking with a
dynamic library called libNAME.so (or a static libNAME.a when
there's no shared object version of the library).
