Re: autoconf linking with shared object

[Andreas Schwab]

Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> 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.

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