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

[Fergus Henderson]

On 22-May-2002, Simon Taylor <stayl at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> On 22-May-2002, Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> MLLIBS is documented to be a list of `-l' options, so `.a'
> files shouldn't be passed there.

Well, MLOBJS is documented to be a list of object files,
so `.a' files shouldn't be passed there either.

`.a' files can't be passed directly in MLLIBS,
but you can pass the corresponding `-l' option.
E.g. instead of `MLOBJS=libfoo.a' use `MLLIBS=-lfoo'.
Likewise you can use `--library foo' instead of `--link-objects libfoo.a'.

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