From: Toon Knapen (toon.knapen_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-10-22 03:20:54
David Abrahams wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Toon Knapen" <toon.knapen_at_[hidden]>
>
>
>>In gcc-tools.jam (and almost all others) the content of the
>><library-file> flag is stored in the NEEDLIBS variable.
>>This does not work however.
>>
>
> It used to work.
Sorry, I've drawn my conclusiont to quicly ;-(
It does work but I expected that the content of <library-file> would end
up at the end of the link-line instead of at the beginning (since I use
it for linking with external libs, I need it at the end ; the content of
<find-library> does end up at the end)
Also NEEDLIBS is used twice to workaround circular dependency problems
(as you state in the comments). Is this really necessary. Storing the
content of <find-library> in another variable, say FINDLIBRARY and
replacing the last of both NEEDLIBS in the link-line with FINDLIBRARY,
every still works and it seems like a better solution to me. I guess you
did this to workaround some problem but I can't find the discussion in
the archive so I might still miss something)
toon