Re: pkg-config question

[Sander Vesik <Sander Vesik Sun COM>]

On Tue, 27 Aug 2002, Thomas Vander Stichele wrote:

> > Thomas Vander Stichele <thomas apestaart org> writes: 
> > > -L /home/thomas/cvs/lib -lgstreamer -L/home/thomas/garnome/lib -lglib-2.0 
> > > -lxml2 ...
> > >
> > 
> > I think I used to not rearrange, intending to get the effect you
> > mention, but it turns out that the order of these flags doesn't
> > matter. From the "ld" info page, note the last sentence:
> > 
> >  `-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 specified on the command line are searched before the
> >      default directories.  All `-L' options apply to all `-l' options,
> >      regardless of the order in which the options appear.
> 
> Hm, that's HUGELY annoying ;) Is there any way I can work around this, 
> using whatever means (maybe even splitting up libs) ? Any idea why this 
> behaviour would be better than what one would expect ?

Its not better - its just a documented bug in gnu ld. 

> Thomas
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