Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 11:23:18 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Nikita Proskourine <nproskou AT goucher DOT edu>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: using old libraries with new DJGPP
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On Tue, 25 Feb 1997, Eli Zaretskii (that's me) wrote:

> On Mon, 24 Feb 1997, Nikita Proskourine wrote:
> 
> > Another annoying thing: I thought that -l bug was fixed in ld (I am
> > using ld to bypass libc.a. But when I provide -lpatch, it says that file
> > -lpatch is not found and doesn't even look for libpatch.a.
> 
> I think the -lname conversion to libname.a is a feature of gcc, ld 
> doesn't know anything about it.

Sorry, I was wrong: ld *does* know about -lname.  But it doesn't know 
about the LIBRARY_PATH environment variable, so you might need to use -L 
option to tell it where to look for the libraries.