Hi! Beside using an absolute path, the ld of Binutils has eight ways¹ to pass a library like libfoo.so via options:
-lfoo -l foo -library=foo --library=foo -l:libfoo.so -l :libfoo.so -library=:libfoo.so --library=:libfoo.so The ld-wrapper however only supports one of these possibilities, which is the most common: -lfoo. GCC itself does not support the -[-]library= variants. Similarly there are four ways to specify a library search path /bar for ld: -L/bar -L /bar -library-path=/bar --library-path=/bar The ld-wrapper only supports the first two. GCC itself does not support the -[-]library-path= variant. The lld form the LLVM project supports all these different options as well. Bye Stefan ¹ <https://sourceware.org/binutils/docs-2.42/ld/Options.html>
