Re: adding a flag for the linker in a certain order

[Dan Hitt]

Just for reference here, some people on the gcc-help list
gave me a work-around for this issue.

The work around is to link in the whole archive, via:

ADDITIONAL_LDFLAGS=-Wl,--whole-archive,/full/path/to/lib1.a,/full/path/to/lib2.a,...,--no-whole-archive

Here, /full/path/to/lib1.a is a static library containing the same
symbols that i wanted to link in.

But i would still like to be able to place my LDFLAGS anywhere i want
in the gnustep GNUmakefile, so if there is a way of doing that somebody
please let me know.

(It would be better because it would be more natural and i could use the
-l abbreviation for libraries which is probably more portable.)

So thanks in advance for any clues on that front, or maybe a pointer to
the docs (because maybe it's right there but i'm just looking over it??).

dan

On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 1:49 PM, Dan Hitt <dan.hitt@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm building a command line program (using tool.make) and
> i need to add a library.
>
> I understand from the internet that in order to add a flag for
> the linker i use
>    ADDITIONAL_LDFLAGS=-lblahblahblah
>
> By using "make messages=yes" i can verify that indeed the
> extra library is getting added.
>
> But it is getting added to the front of the list, while it needs
> to be added to the end of the list in order to get all the
> symbols resolved.  (If i manually form the command by
> moving the library from the first place on the list to the
> last place i have verified that all symbols indeed resolve
> if the library is placed last.)
>
> So . . . what should i do to get my linker argument to the
> end of the list?
>
> Thanks in advance for any clues or pointers.
>
> dan