Re: Cyclic dependencies

[Steve M. Robbins]

On Sat, Jun 14, 2003 at 10:25:49AM +1000, Kevin Ryde wrote:
> Thomas Maier <address@hidden> writes:
> >
> > if linux's behaviour is really extraordinary or if systems
> > with such limited library features are slowly dying away?
> 
> Making just one pass across a -lfoo library at its point in the
> command line is traditional unix style, for ".a" libraries.  

Precisely.

> I'm not certain but I guess shared libraries and runtime binding are
> why things seem looser these days.

Yeah.  But you really should get things in order anyway, just in you
want to link it -static someday.  I learned that one the hard way: try
figuring out the correct order for all those pesky X libraries
sometime!  ;-)

-S