From: Warren Young
Date: November 12 2010 8:11pm
Subject: Re: Link error when building mysql++-3.1.0 with --as-needed
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On 11/12/2010 11:58 AM, Warren Young wrote:
> On Nov 12, 2010, at 9:44 AM, Adrian Cornish wrote:
>
>> This is related to link order, please place static library
>> mysqlpp_ssqls2parser before the "--as-needed" flag and it will link
>> fine.
>>
>> g++ -o test_ssqls2 test_ssqls2_ssqls2.o -lmysqlpp_ssqls2parse
>> -Wl,--as-needed -L. -L/usr/local/lib/mysql -lmysqlclient -lmysqlpp
>
> To make that fix apply to MySQL++, you'd have to patch Bakefile, or
> convince the maintainer to do it for you.  There's nothing in
> mysql++.bkl you can change to force -l flags to appear before -L.

On thinking more about it, I don't even see why Vaclav (the Bakefile 
maintainer) would accept that solution.  -L *should* appear before -l.

There has to be a better solution.  I can't believe this is the only 
command line ordering g++ will accept to give the right result.