On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 6:46 AM, Warren Young <war...@etr-usa.com> wrote:
> Just stepping back a bit, some linkers are more tolerant than others about > the order of flags and such. Libraries that land in standard locations > like /usr/lib also obscure this issue, by rendering irrelevant an > improperly-placed or -constructed -L flag. > > Because of this, you will find a fair number of bad Makefile.am examples > out in the wild. You don't find out that you've been emulating one of > these bad examples until you try your package on a system with a stricter > linker or one that places libraries you need in odd places. > True enough. I did get my bad Makefile text by conscientious searching. However the problem is now solved. Thanks, Bob
