On Sat, Jun 14, 2003 at 10:25:49AM +1000, Kevin Ryde wrote: > Thomas Maier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > if linux's behaviour is really extraordinary or if systems > > with such limited library features are slowly dying away? > > Making just one pass across a -lfoo library at its point in the > command line is traditional unix style, for ".a" libraries.
Precisely. > I'm not certain but I guess shared libraries and runtime binding are > why things seem looser these days. Yeah. But you really should get things in order anyway, just in you want to link it -static someday. I learned that one the hard way: try figuring out the correct order for all those pesky X libraries sometime! ;-) -S _______________________________________________ Libtool mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool