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From: steve@robobar.co.uk (Steve Bleazard)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Xenix GCC/gcc.c -l option fails to order libraries correctly
Message-ID: <1990May7.152419.20452@robobar.co.uk>
Date: 7 May 90 15:24:19 GMT
References: <1990May5.204319.7007@dallnix.uucp>
Organization: Robobar Ltd., Perivale, Middx., ENGLAND.
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In article <1990May5.204319.7007@dallnix.uucp> bob@dhw68k.cts.com (Bob Best) writes:
> 
> 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.
> 
This is a bug in the way I handled -l.  The Xenix ld doesn't grok -l,
so I had to modify the gcc driver.  Unfortunately, I forgot about this
case :-(.  I'll fix this in the next patch kit.

Steve.
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