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>>>>> "VOFRT" == V O F Roana Technologies <roana@cs.utwente.nl> writes:

VOFRT> Hi everyone!  I Have a problem that really annoys me, because I
VOFRT> cannot continue developing until this is solved.

VOFRT>   The past few weeks the shuffling of libraries finally
VOFRT> resulted in a working binary, but as things get more and more
VOFRT> complex, I don't seem to be able to produce a binary
VOFRT> anymore!!!!!!! Am I doing something wrong?  Should I use some
VOFRT> flag to produce other object-files and/or archives?

see the man page for ld. From the SunOS 4.1.3 one:

     -lx[.v]
          This option is an abbreviation  for  the  library  name
          libx.a,  where x is a string. ld searches for libraries
          first in any directories  specified  with  -L  options,
          then  in  the  standard directories /lib, /usr/lib, and
          /usr/local/lib.  A library is searched when its name is
          encountered,  so  the placement of a -l is significant.
          If  a  dynamically  loadable  object  is   found,   and
          -Bdynamic  is  in  effect  at that point on the command
          line, then ld prepares to access the object for reloca-
          tion at run-time.  In such a case, the optional .v suf-
          fix can be used to indicate a specific library version.

This is what the semantics of -lxxx have always been, so your
complaint should be to how your libs are organized.  You can always
specify the libraries again to have them re-scanned.  In general, you
don't want a pair of libraries that both reference code from the
other.
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