Changes in g++-4.4 to g++-4.6 affecting make

[Stephen D. Fox]

Hi,

In makefiles on Ubuntu & Debian machines, previously you could set

CPPFLAGS=$(some paths)
LDFLAGS=$(some libraries)

and

"make main"

would compile by default using something like this command:

g++ $(CPPFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) main.cpp -o main

Now it gives linking errors because it seems g++-4.6 has changed (maybe
what was previously a bug?). Is it now compulsory for linking flags to
come after the
sources to which they apply?

I've tested with g++-4.4 and make 3.81-8 on ubuntu, and the above works,
but it
doesn't work with g++-4.6.  Is there a different variable I could set
other than LDFLAGS
for a generic makefile like that?

Thanks