Re: why does libtool reorder -Wl, arguments to the end making -Wl, --as-needed unusable

[Albert Chin]

On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 07:42:53PM -0600, Albert Chin wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 02:02:09AM +0200, Petteri Räty wrote:
> > Albert Chin kirjoitti:
> >> On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 03:17:54PM +0200, Petteri Räty wrote:
> >>> address@hidden /mnt/checkouts/classpath/native/jni/qt-peer $ make
> >>> make  all-am
> >>> make[1]: Entering directory `/mnt/checkouts/classpath/native/jni/qt-peer'
> >>> /bin/sh ../../../libtool --tag=CXX   --mode=link g++ -DQT_SHARED 
> >>> -I/usr/include/qt4 -I/usr/include/qt4/QtCore -I/usr/include/qt4/QtGui -g 
> >>> -O2 -module -version-info 0:0:0 -no-undefined -avoid-version 
> >>> -Wl,--as-needed -o libqtpeer.la -rpath /usr/local/classpath/lib/classpath 
> >>> ... [snip snip]
> >>>
> >>> --as-needed needs to come before the object files and libs to be 
> >>> effective but libtool moves it to the end. This happens with both 1.5.26 
> >>> and cvs head.
> >>
> >> The fact that libtool reorders _any_ of the command-line is a bug. I
> >> think Ralf has a fix for this but I don't think it'll happen until 2.1
> >> or 2.2.
> >>
> >
> > Still there in libtool 2.2
> 
> I forgot we skipped 2.0. So, that means "I don't think it'll happen
> until 2.3 or 2.4"

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libtool-patches/2006-06/msg00033.html
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libtool-patches/2006-01/msg00061.html

http://wiki.azazil.net/GnuLibtoolProject/RoadMap:
  Preserve the order of the command-line and make changes in-place,
  if required.

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albert chin (address@hidden)