Search paths with duplicated .la libraries

[libtool]

Say I have:
  /opt/dir1/
    libfoo.a
    libfoo.la

  /opt/dir2/
    libfoo.so
    libfoo.la

If I:
  libtool --mode-link cc -L/opt/dir2 -L/opt/dir1 ...
then libtool uses /opt/dir2/libfoo.la. However, if I:
  libtool --mode-link cc -L/opt/dir1 -L/opt/dir2 ...
then libtool uses /opt/dir1/libfoo.la even though a shared library
exists in /opt/dir2/libfoo.la and not in /opt/dir1/libfoo.la. Is this
the desired behaviour? Does libtool care about the first .la it finds
or the first .la with a shared library (if not linking statically)?

I'm using MLB.

-- 
albert chin (address@hidden)