%% Jorma Laaksonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
jl> Could someone please explain me the roles of the variables LDLIBS
jl> and LOADLIBES ? It seems to me that by default they are always
jl> concatenated when used. Also, the system-specific makes I have
jl> access to only use LOADLIBES and not LDLIBS. A short explanation
jl> of the roles of these two would be appreciated also in the texinfo
jl> documentation!
They're just two common variables used by different make systems to
contain linker libraries. They're both included in every link command,
mostly as a nod to portability, in the built in rule set that make uses,
so you'd see:
%: %.o
$(LINK.o) $^ $(LOADLIBES) $(LDLIBS) -o $@
etc. (LINK.o contains "$(CC) $(LDFLAGS) $(TARGET_ARCH)").
They have no default value, and no intrinsic use: use the one you like,
or use both and choose your own definition of what they should be.
You can use:
$ make -pf/dev/null
to see the default rule set.
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