From: Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2010 16:06:48 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: havelib: Add static libraries to LIBS in the right order.
X-Git-Tag: stable/20100424~45
X-Git-Url: http://erislabs.org.uk/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=6f6d4bfea50475d6c27975e1971af443832efbfe;p=gnulib.git

havelib: Add static libraries to LIBS in the right order.
(cherry picked from commit 82b0be34b85e7169e869e0503b607c990c524da2)
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diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 8091ba8ce..d337a0b4a 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,11 @@
 2010-04-11  Bruno Haible  <bruno@clisp.org>
 
+	havelib: Add static libraries to LIBS in the right order.
+	* m4/lib-link.m4 (AC_LIB_HAVE_LINKFLAGS): When $LIB[]NAME contains no
+	-l options, prepend it to $LIBS, instead of appending it to $LIBS.
+
+2010-04-11  Bruno Haible  <bruno@clisp.org>
+
 	libunistring: Detect libunistring also when it depends on libiconv.
 	* m4/libunistring.m4 (gl_LIBUNISTRING): Unset the cached result before
 	the second AC_LIB_HAVE_LINKFLAGS invocation.
diff --git a/m4/lib-link.m4 b/m4/lib-link.m4
index 90e1ac917..c73bd8e3a 100644
--- a/m4/lib-link.m4
+++ b/m4/lib-link.m4
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# lib-link.m4 serial 20 (gettext-0.18)
+# lib-link.m4 serial 21 (gettext-0.18)
 dnl Copyright (C) 2001-2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 dnl This file is free software; the Free Software Foundation
 dnl gives unlimited permission to copy and/or distribute it,
@@ -74,7 +74,17 @@ AC_DEFUN([AC_LIB_HAVE_LINKFLAGS],
 
   AC_CACHE_CHECK([for lib[]$1], [ac_cv_lib[]Name], [
     ac_save_LIBS="$LIBS"
-    LIBS="$LIBS $LIB[]NAME"
+    dnl If $LIB[]NAME contains some -l options, add it to the end of LIBS,
+    dnl because these -l options might require -L options that are present in
+    dnl LIBS. -l options benefit only from the -L options listed before it.
+    dnl Otherwise, add it to the front of LIBS, because it may be a static
+    dnl library that depends on another static library that is present in LIBS.
+    dnl Static libraries benefit only from the static libraries listed after
+    dnl it.
+    case " $LIB[]NAME" in
+      *" -l"*) LIBS="$LIBS $LIB[]NAME" ;;
+      *)       LIBS="$LIB[]NAME $LIBS" ;;
+    esac
     AC_TRY_LINK([$3], [$4],
       [ac_cv_lib[]Name=yes],
       [ac_cv_lib[]Name='m4_if([$5], [], [no], [[$5]])'])