From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: hjl@nynexst.com (H.J. Lu)
To: dholland@husc.harvard.edu
Cc: gas2@cygnus.com, ian@cygnus.com (Ian Lance Taylor)
Subject: Re: problems with ld from binutils 2.5.2l.20
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 1995 06:53:00 -0000
Message-id: <9508031349.AA10077@nynexst.com>
References: <9508021833.AA27238@husc7.harvard.edu>
X-SW-Source: 1995/msg00144.html

> 
>  > 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.


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H.J. Lu
NYNEX Science and Technology, Inc.			hjl@nynexst.com