Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@xxxxxx> writes: > Hi Braden, > > * Braden McDaniel wrote on Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 10:32:37AM CEST: >> Is this advice really still relevant? Are all those packages that apply >> -l and -L together as a unit Doing It Wrong? > > Yes. And anybody trying to link completely statically in this case will > be hurt: the linker will only search the static libraries when it > encounters them on the command line; if a later library needs some > object from an earlier one pulled in (that wasn't already pulled in by > something else), then you will get a link failure. With linker flags like --as-needed this becomes relevant even in the shared case. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@xxxxxxx 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." _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
