You're absolutely right. For some reason my paste added random spaces. So, with the --perserve-dup-deps flag set my link worked!
Thanks for all your help. Jim -----Original Message----- From: Andreas Schwab [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2006 12:20 AM To: Jim Rainville Cc: Ralf Wildenhues; automake@gnu.org Subject: Re: adding libraries and header file directories "Jim Rainville" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Doh! Sometimes I fail to see the forest for the trees. So I copied the > link line and added the --perserve-dup-deps flag. Something weird > happens here. It's cutting off a lot of the file names. I thought at > first it was a copy and paste error but its not It is almost certainly a paste error. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] vlc-0.8.5]$ /bin/sh ./libtool --preserve-dup-deps > --mode=link --tag=CC gcc -Wsign-compare -Wall -pipe -o vlc vlc -vlc.o ^^^ > src/libvlc.a -Wl,--start-group -lelem_chkpt_api -lelem_chmgmt_api > -lelem_ core_api -lelem_mobj_api -lelem_fault_api -lelem_rel_api ^^^^^^^^ etc. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."
