Odd linking behavior (RH 5.1)

[Dave Steffen <steffend at helicon dot physics dot colostate dot edu>]

Hi Folks,

   I thought this was odd: I just upgraded to egcs 1.1b, and a linking
   stage command that used to work now does not:

c++ -ansi -Wall  -o eigen eigen.o -llapack -lblas -lf2c
/usr/lib/libf2c.so: undefined reference to `MAIN__'


   Which seems to indicate it's trying to link in libf2c.so instead of
   libf2c.a. Indeed, when I give the f2c library name explicitly:

c++ -ansi -Wall  -o eigen eigen.o -llapack -lblas /usr/lib/libf2c.a

   It also works if I use the static switch, a la:

c++ -ansi -Wall -static -o eigen eigen.o -llapack -lblas -f2c.a

   everything's fine. Anybody know why it's trying to pick up the
   shared library by default?

   THANKS

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