Bug#345388: libqt4-dev: qmake adds -L/usr/lib

[Marc Glisse <marc.glisse@loria.fr>]

On Fri, 30 Dec 2005, Brian Nelson wrote:

> > qmake adds -L/usr/lib to (the beginning of) LIBS. This is unneeded, and
> > actually causes many problems.
> I agree it's unneeded, but what problems does it cause?

I was recompiling a package that contains both a library and a program. 
When linking the program, "-L/usr/lib" came before "-L../lib" and the 
linker tried to link the program against the old version of the library in 
/usr/lib.

<rant>
I believe that -L$QTDIR -lQt* should only appear at the end of LIBS (or 
close to the end), and -L$QTDIR only if it is needed; maybe even use 
/usr/lib/libQt*.so instead of -L/-l flags, but I am dreaming. At least I
need to be able to add -L flags before -L$QTDIR (maybe that is possible
and I and the author of the package just need to read the doc...).
</rant>