a question about -l option

[Ian Lance Taylor]

ali hagigat <hagigatali@gmail.com> writes:

> My question is about the link option, -l. Like, -lrt,  We know that
> librt.a (or librt.so) is the actual file which is searched for. But i
> had a an experience and i saw that if there is no librt.a, other "rt"
> combinations are searched too, like , librtdm.a.

That is not correct, at least not on GNU/Linux or Unix systems.  If you
use -lrt, the linker will search for librt.a and librt.so.  It will not
search for librtdm.a.

Ian