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Bug#617751: ocaml-soundtouch: Shouldn't link against stdc++



Hi,

Stéphane Glondu <glondu@debian.org> (11/03/2011):
> So you mean that by using some specific library, one should change
> linker?

no, I mean that by using the C++ programming language, you're supposed
to link using g++.

> Doesn't sound right to me... Do you have any reference that
> explains why linking to -lstdc++ without g++ is bad practice? I've
> already heard of that, but couldn't find any decent explanation.

Because it's not guaranteed to work. Example:
| $ cat foo.cpp
| #include <iostream>
| 
| using namespace std;
| 
| int main(void) {
|   cout << "Hello world!" << endl;
|   return 0;
| }

| $ g++ -c foo.cpp -o foo.o

| $ ld -lstdc++ foo.o -o foo
| ld: cannot find -lstdc++

Both work, with the intermediate target:
| g++ foo.o -o foo

or directly:
| $ g++ foo.cpp -o foo

http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Link-Options.html also suggests you
should be using g++ to link (see -static-*).

KiBi.

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