LIBS or LDLIBS ?

[Sébastien Hinderer]

Dear autoconf and make users,

The status of the LIBS and LDLIBS variables is unclear to me.

Do both of them have a conventional meanings, or are they just
alternatives for the same thing, namely giving libraries that should be
passed to the ld linker?

./configure --help refers to LIBS but in make's manual it's LDLIBS which
is mentionned and the GNU coding standard at
https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/index.html does not help...

Thanks in advance for any advice,

Sébastien.