linker SEARCH_DIR order

David O'Brien obrien@FreeBSD.org
Mon Apr 29 12:19:00 GMT 2002


On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 10:08:07PM +0930, Alan Modra wrote:
> Why is the default native linker search path in this order?
> /lib /usr/lib /usr/local/lib $prefix/$target/lib
> 
> Wouldn't it be more sense to be reversed, or to match gcc,
> $prefix/$target/lib /usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib ?

I am very iffy on /usr/local/lib being anywhere but at the end of the
search list.  $prefix/$target/lib does seem it should be first.



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