Re: Trouble controlling linking if many library versions are installed

[Rob Browning]

Bob Friesenhahn <address@hidden> writes:

> The foo-config type scripts are fraught with problems.  They attempt
> to be a complete solution rather than expressing only the dependencies
> they directly contribute.  Unfortunately, eliminating -L/usr/lib
> -L/lib and -I/usr/include is not an appropriate solution because it
> may be that library dependencies dictate that a library in this
> directory is required prior to another library.  The only solution may
> be explicit linkage.

I guess the eventual solution might have to be gcc args like
--push-flags <some-flags> --pop-flags, or perhaps better,
--begin-group <some-flags> --end-group as someone recently mentioned,
but that's not going to help on all architectures...

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Rob Browning
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