Built static libcurl.a on OS X 10.11, but can't find libcurl.a

Question

I'm trying to build a static SSL-enabled libcurl.a on OS X 10.11 (TO TARGET 10.8):

export MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET="10.8"
./configure --disable-shared --with-darwinssl
make clean
make
sudo make install

But despite no errors (a few warnings), I can't locate anywhere on the hard disk where a new libcurl.a has been built. What am I missing?

Daniel solved the problem -- I haven't done Make Install...

FOLLOW-UP:

My whole purpose for building a libcurl.a with --disable-share was to break the dependency on the libcurl.4.dylib. But just linking with libcurl.a creates a dependency to /opt/local/lib/libcurl.4.dylib.

See my post for the answer.

Answer 1

1. You don't need sudo to make nor make clean
2. You're supposed to run make install to install the newly built stuff, and then it'll install under /usr/local by default - which you can change with configure's --prefix option
3. After make install with default path, the lib will be in /usr/local/lib. Or $prefix/lib really since you can alter the prefix.
4. Before you invoke make install, the static library is usually found in the lib/.libs subdirectory.