Re: -L not working properly?
On Sat, 2002-06-15 at 20:06, Jason E. Stewart wrote:
>
> I'm running an up-to-date sid on my pismo, and in the last month I've
> started getting strange behavior when compiling code that uses dynamic
> libraries that I have multiple copies of (devo versions and stable
> versions).
>
> I've got link lines like:
>
> g++ -DLINUX -fpic -L/usr/lib -L/usr/local/lib \
> [bunch of .o files]
> /home/jasons/work/xml-xerces/c/bin/DOMPrint
> -L/home/jasons/work/xml-xerces/c/lib -lxerces-c -lc
>
> but I get a bunch of link errors because the linker is actually using
> the libxerces-c.so in /usr/lib and not the one in
> /home/jasons/work/xml-xerces/c/lib
>
> by hard-coding the exact path to the library it worked fine.
>
> This also happened to a CPAN module I downloaded and compiled, which
> required a completely different library.
>
> I thought the order of -L flags was 'last seen, first used'? What
> would make the linker not use that order?
>From info ld:
-Lsearchdir
--library-path=searchdir
Add path searchdir to the list of paths that ld will
search for archive libraries and ld control scripts.
You may use this option any number of times. The
directories are searched in the order in which they
are specified on the command line. Directories speci
fied on the command line are searched before the
default directories. [...]
So it seems -L/usr/lib is not only redundant but harmful here.
--
Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
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