From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Ian Lance Taylor <ian@cygnus.com>
To: hjl@nynexst.com
Cc: dholland@husc.harvard.edu, gas2@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: problems with ld from binutils 2.5.2l.20
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 1995 08:29:00 -0000
Message-id: <199508031528.LAA03205@sanguine.cygnus.com>
References: <9508031349.AA10077@nynexst.com>
X-SW-Source: 1995/msg00145.html

   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