order of arguments on command line when linking

Sun Feb 16 22:27:00 GMT 2003

>>>> There are various ways to handle this. One is to order things
>>>> carefully. Another is to have the linker search the libraries
>>>> multiple times; see the ld manual.

Thanks, Tom.
I finally got myself to reading the gcc and ld man pages which contain the
solution:
	-Xlinker --start-group myarc1.a myarc2.a myarc3.a -Xlinker --end-group
-Xlinker passes the next argument to ld
everything between --start-group and --end-group will be searched repeatedly
as needed.
That spares me indeed from ordering libraries carefully. And it also solves
cases where libraries recursively depend on each other.