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From: Mikhail Teterin <mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com>
Organization: Virtual Estates, Inc.
To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
Subject: Re: does the order of .a files matter?
Date: Thu, 9 May 2002 17:52:06 -0400
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On Wednesday 08 May 2002 09:52 pm, Terry Lambert wrote:
= Mikhail Teterin wrote:
[...]
= > The most frustrating thing is, the number of such symbols varies
= > greatly with the order, in which I list the libraries on the command
= > line. Is not the linker supposed to make several runs over the given
= > libraries if needed?
=
= No.  It doesn't make several runs.  It only does that for single
= object files.

Is there a reason for it, or this just a not-yet-implemented feature? It
certainly seems like the latter -- why make the user jump through all
the sorting/reordering hoops?

= You might also want to consider using -L<path> -l<library>, instead
= of trying to link .a's directly.

What would this do?

Thanks!

	-mi

P.S. Yes, packing all object files into a single giant .a helped...

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