Change in command line order behaviour

[teunis]

On Wed, 12 Nov 1997, Richard Henderson wrote:

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

gcc (not ld but gcc [ld DOES have this]) has never had this problem...
until now.
It's probably a bug!

[but on another note - neither gcc 2.7.2.1 nor egcs-[some older version -
prolly 970724 or something like that]]

(this is all AFAIK...)

G'day, eh? :)
	- Teunis