--- Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx wrote: > On Mon, 02 Oct 2006 18:52:11 PDT, Sergei Steshenko said: > > > OK, I thought linker was smarter, that is, it would scan the libraries until > > it would resolve the symbols, or find it was impossible. I think, Verilog-XL > > linker used to work that way - sorry, experience from the a wrong world :-). > > > > Then the situation is horrible - it's very bad the result depends on the > > order of two standard directories: /usr/lib and /usr/X11R6/lib. > > It's a "Working As Designed" - if the linker didn't behave that way, you > couldn't add a -L/usr/local/lib and know what the results would be. (And if > anything, /usr/local/lib is *more* standard, as it dates back to when > X11 was still X10.4 - this X11R6 is a *newcomer*. Sun was recommending a > /usr/local/lib on SunOS 3.2, well over 20 years ago....) > As I said, I wouldn't. The systems I build know EXACTLY where the components should be. I've spent countless hours debugging things just to find out that a wrong version of something was picked up because of the search paths mechanism. Since then I hate the search paths and ambiguity they cause. --Sergei. Applications From Scratch: http://appsfromscratch.berlios.de/ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
