Re: [HACKERS] HEAD doesn't cope with libraries in non-default

Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> >> It appears that somebody has changed things so that the -L switches
> >> appear after the -l switches (ie, too late).  I'm too tired to
> >> investigate now, but my money is on Autoconf 2.59 being the problem ...
>
> > I wonder if it was this commit.  I am attaching the patch so you can
> > test to see if it fixes it.  If it does, please let us know.
>
> > ! SHLIB_LINK := $(filter -L%, $(LDFLAGS)) $(SHLIB_LINK)
> > ...
> > ! SHLIB_LINK := $(SHLIB_LINK) $(filter -L%, $(LDFLAGS))
>
> Urgh.  This was considered a good idea why exactly?

I didn't like it myself but it fixed a problem with a build farm
machine, and no one objected, so I applied it, but it seemed pretty
strange to be reversing those. I will reverse the patch.

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