Re: linker file/section matching rules when using libraries

[Ian Lance Taylor <ian at wasabisystems dot com>]

"Nick Kelsey" <fsf@silicondust.com> writes:

> The library file is build/lib/libipWeb.a
> 
> On the commandline I specify: -Lbuild/lib -lipWeb
> 
> This works correctly and gets linked in with my normal rule of:
> 
> * (.text .text.*)
> 
> The follow rule also works:
> 
> build/lib/libipWeb.a (.text .text.*)
> 
> However if I remove the path it failes dispite having the search path and
> the library included on the command line.
> 
> Unfortunatly the build path changes for different projects... the path is
> available to the makefile to pass to the linker but not available to the
> c-preprocessor that generates the linker script.
> 
> I suspect that it isn't matching the full lib name from the rule
> (libipWeb.a) against the command line reference (-lipWeb).

Ah, I see.

I'm not sure whether that should work or not.

I suspect that this would work:

-lipWeb (.text .text.*)

Ian