libtool --mode=link reorders -R commands

[wls]

I am not sure if this is an ImageMagick or a libtool problem, although I
mainly suspect libtool.

System: sparc running Solaris 2.6

libtool version (from ltmain.sh):
VERSION=1.4e
TIMESTAMP=" (1.1087 2002/01/11 00:25:18)"

When trying to build ImageMagick-5.4.4 there appears in the make output the
snippet (lines broken for clarity)

/bin/sh ../libtool --mode=link gcc -L/usr/Local/lib -R/usr/Local/lib  -O3 \
  -mtune=ultrasparc -mcpu=v8 -Wall  -L/local/lib -R/local/lib -L/local/lib \
  -L/usr/X11R6/lib -R/usr/X11R6/lib -o composite -L/local/lib -R/local/lib \
  -L/local/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib -R/usr/X11R6/lib composite.o \
  ../magick/libMagick.la  
mkdir .libs
gcc -O3 -mtune=ultrasparc -mcpu=v8 -Wall -o composite composite.o \
        -L/usr/Local/lib -L/local/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib \
        ../magick/.libs/libMagick.a -ljbig -ltiff \
        /local/lib/libfreetype.so /local/lib/libjpeg.so \
        -lpng -lXext -lXt -lSM -lICE -lX11 -lsocket -lnsl -lbz2 -lz -lpthread \
        -lm -R/local/lib -R/local/lib -R/usr/Local/lib -R/usr/X11R6/lib

/usr/Local/lib contains versions of some of the shared libraries optimized for
the sparc version of the machine running the program.  These libraries are also
present in /local/lib for the sake of old programs haven't been relinked to
look in /usr/Local/lib.  I really wanted to put -R/usr/Local/lib before
R/local/lib in the run time search path.  I tricked configure to order the
libraries the way I wanted by setting environment variable
CC='gcc -L/usr/Local/lib -R/usr/Local/lib'.  However libtool itself seems to
be reordering the -R directories to alphabetical order.  If it is trying to
avoid duplicating directories, it is failing as -R/local/lib appears twice.

Bill Sebok      Computer Software Manager, Univ. of Maryland, Astronomy
        Internet: address@hidden        URL: http://www.astro.umd.edu/~wls/