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Subject: Re: ld fails when -L/lib is on the command line
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On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 10:55 PM, Christopher Faylor  wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 12:55:09PM -0500, Nathan Thern wrote:
>>A complicated project I'm building fails on this call to gcc:
>>gcc -shared <object files> -L<lib_path_in_build_tree> -L/lib
>>-L/usr/lib <build_libs> <std_libs> -o .libs/cyg<lib>.dll
>>-Wl,--enable-auto-image-base -Xlinker --out-implib -Xlinker
>>.libs/lib<lib>.dll.a
>
> You're going to have to clue us in on what "fails" means in this context.

In other words, we need the error message.

Check the makefile. My suspicion is that there is a
-L$(SOME_VARIABLE)/lib there, but the variable is not defined and so
it's expanded to empty.

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