[Buildroot] Naming of libraries.
Thomas Lundquist
lists at zelow.no
Sun Nov 5 08:27:26 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.)
hehe, ok.
the question was more of a naming convention issue in buildroot but I
guess it's just like that for other purposes.
(slang and ncurses are not prefixed with lib, so I guess it's no real
issue.)
> (And yes, I honestly think they believe "-liberty" as a command line option is
> funny or something, hence libiberty.a)
but it is :=)
Thomas.
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