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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


      reply	other threads:[~1995-09-12  3:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [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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