[m-rev.] diff: fix `mmc --make' link object order

[Fergus Henderson]

On 22-May-2002, Simon Taylor <stayl at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> 
> compiler/make.program_target.m:
> 	MLOBJS or `--link-objects' may contain `.a' files, which 
> 	should come last on the linker command line.

You know, it seems to me that putting `.a' files in MLOBJS
or passing them via `--link-objects' is an abuse of that feature.

Surely `.a' files should be mentioned in MLLIBS rather than MLOBJS
and passed via `--library' rather than `--link-objects', shouldn't they?

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