Re: GTK+ library access issue?

[Greg Ewing <greg ewing canterbury ac nz>]

Paul Davis wrote:

> the gnu linker follows a unix tradition of interpreting the list of
> explicitly and implictly provided object files names as a dependency
> order. consider two files, a.o and b.o. suppose that a.o uses a
> function or symbol found only in b.o. in general, the linker will be
> able to link these two if the order given is "a.o b.o" but not if its
> "b.o a.o".

Are you sure about that? I thought that ordering was only
important for libraries, and then only insofar as it affects
which .o files get pulled out of the library.

But the order of -l options can certainly be important in
any case.

--
Greg