From: Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
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Subject: Re: Library within library
Date: 12 Dec 2000 13:47:08 GMT
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Shea F. Kenny <lunarchy AT kvi DOT fanz DOT net> wrote:
> On 10 Dec 2000 14:46:05 GMT, you wrote:

>>If you had trouble parsing that sentence, for you this means that you
>>must have "own" before "strange".

> 	How about if you have library a that uses functions from
> library b, you have to list library a first....;-)

Then whoever packaged those libraries deserves a smack over the head.
That's seriously bad design.

But by good luck, the GNU people foresaw even this kind of stupid
usage of their tools, and provide a solution: the linker "ld" has
switches -( and -) to group such recursively interdependant libraries.
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Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de)
Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain.