Re: unresolved symbols with ncurses-5.6 on Alpha OSF1 5.1A

[Thomas Dickey]

On Wed, 25 Apr 2007, Martin MOKREJŠ wrote:

> Why isn't generated something like
>
> $ gcc ../objects/tic.o ../objects/dump_entry.o ../lib/libncurses.a -I../progs 
> -I. -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../include  -D_OSF_SOURCE -DNDEBUG 
> -I/usr/home3/mmokrejs/include/ncurses -O2 -o tic

...because I found long ago that some systems would simply include the
entire library's content in the executable if I listed the ".a" file
explicitly.  Now that I'm thinking of it, listing the ".so" filename
can also let some linkers include the whole file.  (I haven't made a
thorough study of it though).

So using the linker options seems to be the only portable/reliable way
to get what we want.

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