X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AoYFAL9au0uGuDEL/2dsb2JhbACPUoxZugGFCQQ Message-ID: <4BBBC844.6080200@vub.ac.be> Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2010 01:48:20 +0200 From: Robrecht Dewaele User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (X11/20100317) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: GNU make builtin rules produce linker error due to command line arguments order References: <4BBBC2AE DOT 4080606 AT vub DOT ac DOT be> <4BBBC94A DOT 3020505 AT gmail DOT com> In-Reply-To: <4BBBC94A.3020505@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com 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 -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple