Is this supposed to work, or am I loopy?

[Joe Buck]

> > What's wrong with using -Wl, ?  It is only four more characters to
> > type, and it will then work on all build environments.
> > 
> >    g++ -Wl,-R/home/pme/build/install-2001-01-04/lib huh.cc 

Phil Edwards writes:
> Nothing's *wrong* with it.  Just
> 
>   1)  wanted to make certain I wasn't missing anything obvious, and
>   2)  it seems a bit on the gratuitiously incompatible side.
> 
> A user brought (2) to my attention ("gcc takes -R under everything else,
> gcc doesn't take -R under linux, ergo linux is broken") and I wanted to
> test it with the current sources.

At the risk of annoying Robert Dewar again :-), I think the user is
correct and this is a bug.  I've long struggled to get -R to work on
Linux, didn't know I needed to say -Wl, and wound up more that once having
to become root and messing with ldconfig when this shouldn't have been
necessary.

-R should work the same way on all platforms.