Re: Cyclic dependencies

[Kevin Ryde]

Thomas Maier <address@hidden> writes:
>
> if linux's behaviour is really extraordinary or if systems
> with such limited library features are slowly dying away?

Making just one pass across a -lfoo library at its point in the
command line is traditional unix style, for ".a" libraries.  Some
people probably think it's a feature.  I'm not certain but I guess
shared libraries and runtime binding are why things seem looser these
days.