order of switches

[Jeffrey A Law]

  In message < 37B33F81.E79F135D@cs.ucla.edu >you write:
  >   Well.. I can say that with SunCC, when using shared libs,
  >   I never get "undefined" symbols due to bad ordering. 
  >   (It's not as nice with static libs though). I think that,
  >   at minimum, it processes all libs and all object files in
  >   just two pieces, rather than "some libs first, then some
  >   object files, then more libs, more obj"...
  >   I can see that this may be somewhat limiting, but in practice
  >   it's much more convenient.
Catch a clue.  Read the manuals.  Joe, Alexandre and others are correct, you
are wrong.  Unix linkers have worked this way for nearly 30 years.

jeff