is there any way to change the order of name resolution in linking (aside from putting the libraries in the right order?)

[Feuerbacher, Alan]

Ian Lance Taylor wrote:


> One thing that may work, if you are using the GNU linker or something
> reasonably compatible, is
>     -Wl,--whole-archive,-lMYLIB,-Wl,--no-whole-archive
> 
> That will link in the entire contents of the library, so all the
> symbols defined in the library will be available.

I'm trying something like that for a related purpose, but for it to work you have to replace the "," after "MYLIB" with a space. Otherwise gcc complains about an invalid option "-Wl".

Alan