print-file-name

[Daniel Wagner <wagi at gmx dot ch>]

[note: I'm not on the list, so please cc me]

Hello,

I'm bit confused about the print-file-name options. I thought that
should print the whole path to a library, but I only honors libraries
which are located in /lib. I tested it with setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH and
ld.so.conf both with the same result. For example:

wagi@aragorn:/lib$ gcc -v
Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-linux/2.95.2/specs
gcc version 2.95.2 20000220 (Debian GNU/Linux)

wagi@aragorn:~$ ls /usr/local/lib -1
[...]
liboskit_amm.a
liboskit_bootp.a
liboskit_c.a
liboskit_clientos.a
liboskit_com.a
[...]
libtilurcomponents.so
libtilurcomponents.so.0
libtilurcomponents.so.0.0.0
oskit
python1.5
site-python
site_perl
texmf
xemacs

wagi@aragorn:~$export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib

wagi@aragorn:~$gcc -print-file-name=oskit
oskit

The Right Thing(c) would be: /usr/local/lib/oskit 
When I do a simlink from /usr/local/lib/oskit to /lib
then this happends:

wagi@aragorn:/lib$ sudo ln -s /usr/local/lib/oskit/ .

wagi@aragorn:/lib$ gcc -print-file-name=oskit
/lib/oskit

Do I miss something here? Or is this really a bug?

thanks,
wagi

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