Re: Library ordering, try 2

From: Christopher Currie (Christopher_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-03-10 11:11:23

Vladimir Prus wrote:
> It seems like presense of "import order" in gcc.jam has masked this problem in 
> my testing. Should be fixed now.

Yep, works now. Thanks!

> The strange thing is that it works with gcc. Eh... I see the following in 
> sun.jam:
> 
> flags sun.link LIBRARIES <library> ;
> 
> I think that's the bug. The <library> feature is processed specially: some 
> libraries are added to sources and some (exactly, searched), are represeted 
> as <find_shared_library> feature. The code above adds all <library> values to 
> LIBRARY varaible which is then added to sources.
> 
> BTW, gcc.jam has
> 
> flags sun.link LIBRARIES <library-file> ;
> 
> instead. Maybe you change change <library> to <library-file> and report the 
> results?

*sigh* yes... this is an old bug that I had fixed locally long ago and 
had forgotten to check in. The basic process seems to work great now; I 
still need to run some larger tests with both static and shared 
libraries, but it's much better already. Thanks for getting this working 
for us!

Christopher