Re: ld fails to link if library order is reversed

[Ian Lance Taylor]

Nilmoni Deb <address@hidden> writes:

> Lets say I am running the following command
> 
>       gcc z.o -lX -lY -o z
> 
> and libX.a depends on a function that is defined in libY.a then the order
> of linking appears to be important. While the previous command works, the
> next one (with order reversed) will fail:
> 
>       gcc z.o -lY -lX -o z
> 
> This problem has been observed with binutils version 2.10.91. I would
> think that ld should look back when resolving dependencies.

This is correct and documented behaviour.  All Unix linkers behave
this way.

Ian