Re: gcc-10: options order important?

[Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk>]

On Fri, 2021-09-03 at 12:24 +0200, Piotr A. Dybczyński wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> in contrary to previous versions, now in Debian 11 with gcc-10:
> 
> gcc aa.c -lm -o aa           works, but
> 
> gcc -lm aa.c -o aa           does not work, saying: 

[...]

> It seems that an option -lm cannot be placed in an arbitrary place which I used to
> do. Is this intentional ?

I found this too, I just modified my Makefiles to have libraries after
input files.

A man page a found online [1] says linking happens as Greg described, 
and this is true looking at a 6 year old copy of that page on
archive.org. So seems strange that for many years my Makefiles have
worked with Libraries specified before inputs that use them.

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Tixy