Re: Linking problems with gcc 4.6.1 and GNUstep trunk

[Philippe Roussel]

Hi Wolfgang

Le 21/02/2012 09:29, Wolfgang Lux a écrit :

[snip]

> > > Is this a problem in gnustep-make, gcc, the makefile ?
>
> I would say this is the expected behavior. The XXX_LDFLAGS variables are 
> supposed to provide library paths, i.e., -L options, but not libraries 
> themselves, i.e., -l options. These should be provided via a XXX_LIBS flags 
> (and if I'm not mistaken adserver_LIBS should do the job). The reason for this 
> separation is that for many linkers the order of arguments on the command line 
> matters. The problem with the initial version of your Makefile is that 
> -lAddresses appeared before ./obj/adserver.obj/adserver.m.o on the command line 
> and hence the library wasn't used to resolve undefined references in the object 
> file. The second version of the makefile gets the order of arguments right, 
> i.e., -LAddresses appears after ./obj/adserver.obj/adserver.m.o in the link 
> command line.

Thank you for this explanation. It could possibly be less fragile if all 
LDFLAGS and LIBS variables were appended at the end of the command line, 
after all objects files ?

adserver_LIBS doesn't work but adserver_TOOL_LIBS does, that should do 
the trick.

Thanks again,
Philippe