Re: Re-ordering of libraries by libtool.

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Wed, 20 Feb 2013, Richard Shann wrote:

> In the GNU/Denemo project we are trying to cross-build a for windows on
> Debian stable using static libraries. The libtool step is re-ordering
> the libraries before invoking the linker, and so it fails.
> The cross-environment has version 2.22 of GNU/Binutils, but I am not
> clear where the actual libtool is coming from - the host libtool is
> version 2.26b.

It is not wise to use such an archaic libtool.  You can determine 
which version is actually used by doing './libtool --version' in the 
build tree.

> I can't find online documentation for this version, and even in the
> latest version there is almost no mention of libtool re-ordering the
> directories as given. I noticed one previous email on this topic, which
> received no responses. Can someone help?

If any libraries have .la files, then this cause libtool to inject 
library dependencies (additional needed libraries) into the build, 
which may have the apparent effect of re-ordering.

Regardless, you should be using libtool 2.4.2.  Libtool 2.2.6b is a a 
security-patched version of libtool 2.2.6a, which was released in 
2008.

Bob
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