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Re: GNU make builtin rules produce linker error due to command line arguments order


Dave Korn wrote:
On 07/04/2010 00:24, Robrecht Dewaele wrote:

$ LDFLAGS=-lpopt make options

Only put flags in LDFLAGS. Put libs in LDLIBS. The default rule is


%: %.c
# commands to execute (built-in):
$(LINK.c) $^ $(LOADLIBES) $(LDLIBS) -o $@

and LINK.c embeds LDFLAGS. On ELF platforms where command-line order of
linker inputs doesn't matter so much, it'll often work to put -l options in
LDFLAGS, but it's not portable to PE platforms like Windows/Cygwin where the
libraries have to come last on the command-line.
Thanks for the very quick reply, it works perfectly now, and I became a bit wiser thanks to you. :-)

Nevertheless I apologize for taking up your and everyone else's time with something that wasn't an odd behaviour at all.

Kind regards,
Robrecht


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