On Sun, Apr 05, 2009 at 11:14:37PM -0500, Mike Gerdts wrote: > At the risk of wandering off-topic, is there ever a good reason for > -R../lib? Did this behavior change at some point or have I been mistaken > for a really long time?
It's been the wrong thing to do for as long as I've known, but history extends further back than that. I can't think of any good reason to use it now. Questions better asked on tools-linking. Danek