Writing Gentoo ebuilds: how to correctly add libraries using flag-o-matic eclass

Question

I'm trying to write an ebuild (I'm very new to writing ebuilds) and I need to add the library -ltinfo to link against.

My ebuild looks like:

EAPI=8
inherit flag-o-matic
...
src_compile() {
    append-libs -ltinfo
    default
}

Everything else is pretty much default, but in the emerge log I don't see -ltinfo included as a library and it fails to compile.

Answer 1

The Makefile used an environment variable LOADLIBS to specify libraries. The following src compile worked without flag-o-matic.

src_compile() {
    emake LOADLIBS="..."
}