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Date:	Wed, 07 Apr 2010 01:48:20 +0200
From:	Robrecht Dewaele <rdewaele AT vub DOT ac DOT be>
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Dave Korn wrote:
> On 07/04/2010 00:24, Robrecht Dewaele wrote:
>
>   
>> $ LDFLAGS=-lpopt make options
>>     
>
>   Only put flags in LDFLAGS.  Put libs in LDLIBS.  The default rule is
>
>   
>> %: %.c
>> #  commands to execute (built-in):
>> 	$(LINK.c) $^ $(LOADLIBES) $(LDLIBS) -o $@
>>     
>
> and LINK.c embeds LDFLAGS.  On ELF platforms where command-line order of
> linker inputs doesn't matter so much, it'll often work to put -l options in
> LDFLAGS, but it's not portable to PE platforms like Windows/Cygwin where the
> libraries have to come last on the command-line.
>   
Thanks for the very quick reply, it works perfectly now, and I became a 
bit wiser thanks to you. :-)

Nevertheless I apologize for taking up your and everyone else's time 
with something that wasn't an odd behaviour at all.

Kind regards,
Robrecht


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