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From: bob@dallnix.uucp (Bob Best)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Xenix GCC/gcc.c -l option fails to order libraries correctly
Message-ID: <1990May5.204319.7007@dallnix.uucp>
Date: 5 May 90 20:43:19 GMT
Reply-To: bob@dhw68k.cts.com (Bob Best)
Organization: Dallnix Computing, Orange County, CA
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Xenix GCC works great..Hats off to Steve Bleazard

Here's a minor quibble: [as of patch including #pragma pack support]

If you try to force the linker to search Slibc.a before a local library
(say libfoo.a) using 'gcc -o foo -lc libfoo.a foo.o' you're out of luck...
gcc will pass libfoo.a to linker prior to Slibc.a.

C News in fact uses this trick in libstdio/Makefile...the result
being that stdiock.stock and stdiock.fast are identical unless you
modify the Makefile.  Of course, stiock.fast fails on my Xenix 386. :-)
-- 
Bob Best
bob@dhw68k.cts.com