Re: c++ link order problems

[Benoit Sigoure]

Quoting Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden>:

> Hello Dan,
>
> * Dan McMahill wrote on Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 02:56:40PM CET:
> > foo_SOURCES= src1.cc src4.cc src5.cc
> > nodist_foo_SOURCES= src2.cc src3.cc
> >
> > and some extra suffix rules that specify how src2.cc and src3.cc are
> > created (they are generated at build time).
> >
> > Now the problem is that the link order needs to be
> >
> > src1.o src2.o src3.o src4.o src5.o
>
> Try this workaround:
>
> nodist_foo_SOURCES = src1.cc src2.cc src3.cc src4.cc src5.cc
> EXTRA_DIST = src1.cc src4.cc src5.cc
>
> You could also factor (by whole names):
>
> src1 = src1.cc
> src2 = src2.cc src3.cc
> src3 = src4.cc src5.cc
> nodist_foo_SOURCES = $(src1) $(src2) $(src3)
> EXTRA_DIST = $(src1) $(src3)
>
> Just curious: what's the reason for the ordering constraint?

Thanks for the solution, I ran across this problem last week.
For me, the constraint was imposed by Sony's SDK when linking things for Aibo
which required some stub.o to appear first (and this file was nodist_)
otherwise the robot would segv.

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