Change in command line order behaviour

[David Edelsohn]

>>>>> Richard Henderson writes:

Richard> On Thu, Nov 13, 1997 at 09:49:24AM +1300, Ross Alexander wrote:
>> stimpy:~$ gcc test.c -lreadline -ltermcap
>> 
>> stimpy:~$ gcc -lreadline -ltermcap test.c
>> /tmp/cca059941.o: In function `main':
>> /tmp/cca059941.o(.text+0x9): undefined reference to `readline'
>> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

Richard> Unix has had this behaviour since the beginning of time.  Order matters
Richard> with libraries.  You must put the library -after- whatever uses it.

	Not AIX! (:^)  Just another one of the unique features of IBM's
implementation of Unix which utilizes a garbage collecting linker.  The
above failure occurs often when someone ports an AIX application to
another brand of Unix.

With asbestos shield in place,
David