On Fri, 2021-09-03 at 14:10 +0100, Tixy wrote: > On Fri, 2021-09-03 at 12:24 +0200, Piotr A. Dybczyński wrote: > > Hi, > > > > in contrary to previous versions, now in Debian 11 with gcc-10: > > > > gcc aa.c -lm -o aa works, but > > > > gcc -lm aa.c -o aa does not work, saying: > > [...] > > > It seems that an option -lm cannot be placed in an arbitrary place which I > > used to > > do. Is this intentional ? > > I found this too, I just modified my Makefiles to have libraries after > input files. > > A man page a found online [1] says linking happens as Greg described, > and this is true looking at a 6 year old copy of that page on > archive.org. So seems strange that for many years my Makefiles have > worked with Libraries specified before inputs that use them.
Correction... 'for many years my Makefiles have worked with Libraries specified _after_ inputs that use them' -- Tixy
