On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 4:59 PM, Chris Tapp <[email protected]> wrote: > I've got a recipe that uses autotools. It builds ok under Poky, but if I try > to build it on my host (e.g. when developing) then it fails to build with > lots of 'symbol not found' link errors related to libs that are on the system > and which are in the gcc lib search path. > > I've finally tracked this down to link order. The final command is of the > form: > > g++ -lGL -lcurl -o binary a.o b.o > > If I change this to: > > g++ -o binary a.o b.o -lGL -lcurl > > then it builds ok. > > Stranger still is the original form works fine on another system (older > Ubuntu). The ld versions are different (2.21.53 on the one that fails, 2.20.1 > on the one that works). > > Can I get autotools to always link the libraries last?
you did not mention the failing distro but what Ross mentioned could be one reason another reason could be that its using gold as default linker where overlinking is not the default as it used to be. The linking behavior is correct there you need to fix the application to specify the libraries correctly. > > Chris Tapp > > [email protected] > www.keylevel.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > yocto mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list [email protected] https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto
