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Bug#807383: gcc-doc: Manpage documentation of -l is incorrect



Hello,

Missatge de Kai-Uwe Eckhardt <kuehro@posteo.de> del dia dj., 25 de
jul. 2019 a les 10:48:
>
> Hello,
>
> the manual text has been fixed upstream for gcc-9.1.0.
> https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-9.1.0/gcc/Link-Options.html#Link-Options
>
>
> The linker searches a standard list of directories for the library. The
> directories searched include several standard system directories plus
> any that you specify with -L.
>
> Static libraries are archives of object files, and have file names like
> liblibrary.a. Some targets also support shared libraries, which
> typically have names like liblibrary.so. If both static and shared
> libraries are found, the linker gives preference to linking with the
> shared library unless the -static option is used.
>

Thanks for the report, however I feel reluctant to patch gdb-doc
documentation since GFDL is considered non-free by Debian.

Regards
-- 
 Héctor Orón  -.. . -... .. .- -.   -.. . ...- . .-.. --- .--. . .-.


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