Bug#401600: problem can be closed

[Steffen Moeller]

Hi Folkert,

On Wednesday 06 December 2006 20:08, Folkert van Heusden wrote:
> The problem can be closed.
> The solutions was:
> do NOT do:
> g++ -lboinc file.cpp
> but to
> g++ file.cpp -lboinc
> instead (which puzzles me but hey it works).
ah, ok, I thought it was omitted. As a try of a possible explanation:
the order of object files / libraries is important if I recall that correctly. 
I remember my endless tries to get all the X libraries in the right order.
The GNU ld even has a -u option which allows you to undefine a symbol while 
reading from left to right to have it defined in a later (to the right) 
library.

      -u symbol
              Pretend the symbol symbol is undefined, to force linking of  li-
              brary  modules  to  define  it.  You can use `-u' multiple times
              with different symbols to force loading  of  additional  library
              modules.

Hm. The man page does not really reflect this. Sombody please correct me if I 
was talking nonsense.

Steffen