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a7fdaad7-56ea-c53c-8c56-107ac1b3a16d@vodafonemail.de
Hi!
Beside using an absolute path, the ld of Binutils has eight ways¹ to pass a library like libfoo.so via options:
-lfoo
-l foo
-library=foo
--library=foo
-l:libfoo.so
-l :libfoo.so
-library=:libfoo.so
--library=:libfoo.so
The ld-wrapper however only supports one of these possibilities, which is the most common: -lfoo. GCC itself does not support the -[-]library= variants.
Similarly there are four ways to specify a library search path /bar for ld:
-L/bar
-L /bar
-library-path=/bar
--library-path=/bar
The ld-wrapper only supports the first two. GCC itself does not support the -[-]library-path= variant.
The lld form the LLVM project supports all these different options as well.
Bye
Stefan