Re: Libtool eats redundant link objects

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Feb 24, 2001, Sam TH <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 12:18:13AM +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote:

>> It seems this was fully intentional.  In fact, the code says
>> 
>> # Make sure that $var contains only unique libraries
>> # and add them in reverse order

This is definitely wrong.  Thanks for spotting the problem.

> Is there any good reason to prevent people from doing this?  
           
The rationale was that it used to prevent correct linking because of
excessively-long link command lines in certain cases.  Which doesn't
make the dropping of duplicate libraries right, it just creates a
different problem scenario.

Sam, would you please add a `break' just before the comment above, and
see if it fixes the problem for you?

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