Re: -L not working properly?
On Sun, 2002-06-16 at 02:00, Jason E. Stewart wrote:
> "Michel Dänzer" <daenzer@debian.org> writes:
>
> > > I thought the order of -L flags was 'last seen, first used'? What
> > > would make the linker not use that order?
> >
> > The directories are searched in the order in which they
> > are specified on the command line.
> >
> > So it seems -L/usr/lib is not only redundant but harmful here.
>
> Hey Michel,
>
> So am I delusional, and -L never worked in 'last seen, first used'
> order? I thought the whole point was to be able to do things like:
>
> -L/priv/lib1 -llib1 -L/priv/lib2 -lib2 -L/priv/lib2 -lib3 ...
>
> and ensure you were getting the correct libraries?
Please RTFM. :) One of the next sentences I omitted is: 'All -L options apply
to all -l options, regardless of the order in which the options appear.'
> I'm downloading code off standard repositories that is suddenly not
> linking because of this - did it change recently??
No idea, I wouldn't expect it it did though.
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Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
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