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

[Tim Mooney]

> The real problem is that Tru64's linker searches the list of directories
> twice, and finds a shared library outside the build tree before noticing
> the static library in the build tree.

Correct.

> > What happens if you get rid of the -static and -dynamic directives you
> > added, and just add
> >
> >       -oldstyle_liblookup
> >
> > to LDFLAGS?  Does that fix the issue?
>
> I'm reading a Tru64 manpage now, and it sounds as if the answer is no.
> That makes it search first for shared objects in all directories, and
> then for static objects in all directories.  (It's a little puzzling
> since that is also described for the default behavior).

Incorrect.   The -oldstyle_liblookup makes the linker use the pre-4.0
behavior, so it *doesn't* search for shared libraries first, and only
then search for static libraries.

At 4.0 and later, the default behavior is to prefer shared libraries.
The -oldstyle_liblookup argument reverts that, to behave more like the
linker on most other platforms.

Tim
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