problems with ld from binutils 2.5.2l.20
Ian Lance Taylor
ian@cygnus.com
Thu Aug 3 08:29:00 GMT 1995
From: hjl@nynexst.com (H.J. Lu)
Date: Thu, 3 Aug 95 9:49:19 EDT
> > For the GNU linker, -L applies to all -l's.
>
> This behavior is wrong. First, it makes no sense, since the order of
> -l's is significant, and second, it makes it impossible to control
> which copies of which libraries are linked with, which could be
> significant.
The problem is twofold:
1. gcc will re-arrange the order of -L's and -l's. It puts -L's ahead of
-l's.
2. One -L list is used fo all libraries in the linker.
We have to change both gcc and ld to do the "right" thing.
Just as a side note, the GNU linker behaviour is consistent with the
SunOS linker behaviour. However, I agree that this should probably be
changed.
Ian
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