[Buildroot] Naming of libraries.
don
don_reid at comcast.net
Sun Nov 5 00:10:20 UTC 2006
On Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 06:48:41PM -0500, Rob Landley wrote:
> When you tell gcc "gcc -lcurses" it looks for libcurses in the library search
> path. Because gcc looks for things starting with "lib", people add that to
> their library names to use gcc. (Everybody agrees ".exe" is stupid for
> executables, and libraries already have .a or .so anyway, but this is the FSF
> we're talking about. Making sense was never a strong suit with them.)
This convention was in Unix long before the FSF came along, don't blame
them.
Don Reid
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