Re: gcc-10: options order important?
On Fri, 2021-09-03 at 14:10 +0100, Tixy wrote:
> 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.
Correction... 'for many years my Makefiles have worked with Libraries
specified _after_ inputs that use them'
--
Tixy
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