From: Charles Terry <cterry AT plinetl DOT com>
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Subject: Re: RHIDE/DJGPP Linker Issue.
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 21:10:52 -0800
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Thomas Demmer wrote:
> 
> Chris Van Genderen wrote:
> [...]
> > I have tried to list the libraries manually in the option->libraries
> > box. But, I when I use this box, the system complains that it cannot
> > find the libraries at all.
> Add "./" to the library path (or wherever you put them).
> Or did you enter lib_a and lib_b? Just say _a and _b.
> And the libs are linked in exactly in the order entered
> in the listbox.
> 
> >
> > On the same subject, if a function in lib_b ever calls a function in
> > lib_a, there will be no way to link the project at all with LD. Am I
> > crazy, and missing something, or is this indeed the way that the system
> > is written???? It seems hardly logical that libraries cannot have
> > functions which call other libraries.
> add  -l_a -l_b -l_a on the commandline,
> or enter _a twice in the listbox, before and after _b.
> 
> Yes it is awkward, but I guess the ld creators had good reasons
> for this behavior (Athough I fail to find one).
> 
> --
> Ciao
> Tom
Sorry I can't look up the syntax right now, but I think in the info docs
on LD there is a command to have the libraries searched repeatedly. It's
not the default because of speed.
Charles Terry