[bug #30060] messed up LDFLAGS and LIBADD for libgettextpo and libgettextsrc

[Bruno Haible]

Update of bug #30060 (project gettext):

                  Status:             In Progress => Not a Bug              
             Open/Closed:                    Open => Closed                 

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Follow-up Comment #4:

> The correct command when linking libraries should be:
> $(CC) $(LDFLAGS) $(OBJECTS) $(LIBADD)
> Putting some LIBS into LDFLAGS will lead to the fact that LIBS appearing
prior to OBJECTS.

No one puts static libraries into $(LDFLAGS). If they are needed by all
programs, they belong in $(LIBS).

When the target is a non-libtool library, library.a, there is no
$(library_a_LDFLAGS) variable; the link dependencies simply get ignored when
creating a .a file.

When the target is a libtool library, library.la, the value of
$(library_la_LDFLAGS) gets used in a libtool command line, before the objects.
This is OK, because as Ralf Wildenhues wrote in
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2006-09/msg00146.html: "libtool
will reorder the command line so that `-l' flags appear after all encountered
objects."

And the objects appear before $(library_la_LIBADD) and $(LIBS); this is
necessary for static linking.



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