From: Wolfgang Stukenbrock <Wolfgang.Stukenbrock@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
To: "Richard Stallman" <rms@gnu.ai.mit.edu>
Cc: gas2@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: problems with ld from binutils 2.5.2l.20
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 1995 03:43:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <199509121043.MAA22533@faui40.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199509112004.QAA14727@mole.gnu.ai.mit.edu>
>
> Support you run
> ld -Lfoo -lfoo -Lbar -lbar
> The proposed change appears to argue that the -Lbar should not apply
> to the -lfoo. However, that only matters if foo/libfoo.a does not
> exist.
>
> That is true.
>
> What this shows is that even if the order of options were not rearranged,
> the -L feature is insufficient for controlling which libraries are used,
> for the reason that it can only add to the end of the search list.
>
> So I guess we might as well not change this unless/until we also make
> it powerful enough to alter the search list in more flexible ways.
> I don't know of an urgent need to do that.
>
I don't think it will be a good idea to change this in any case, because
some makefile rely on the fact, that all -L directives are scanned before
any other processing is done. The ld would get incompartible to the standard
semantics!
--
Wolfgang Stukenbrock
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[not found] <9508021833.AA27238@husc7.harvard.edu>
1995-08-03 6:53 ` H.J. Lu
1995-08-03 8:29 ` Ian Lance Taylor
1995-09-11 12:34 ` Ian Lance Taylor
1995-09-11 13:05 ` Richard Stallman
1995-09-12 3:43 ` Wolfgang Stukenbrock [this message]
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