[fpc-pascal]Graphics cards, VGALIB

[Tomas Hajny]

On Fri, 3 Sep 2004 15:27:43 +0200 (CEST), Marco van de Voort wrote
> > On 3 sep 2004, at 14:33, Olle Raab wrote:
> 
> > >> this for legacy *nix compatibility using an environment variable).
> > >
> > > Can it help by changing the link order ? Or it is not possible wiht a 2
> > > level ns.. ?
> > 
> > Hmm, yes, that's probably it. The two-level namespace is the reason 
> > that the order of the libraries and objects on the command line matters 
> > under Darwin... We'd have to introduce some compiler switches to 
> > influence the order in which the compiler passes the objects and 
> > libraries to the linker then though.
> 
> We need this afaik for gtk2 too.
> 
> I was thinking about a simple global file with libnames and weights, 
> with a possibility to override on the commandline.
> 
> Simple, generic, and configurable.

This doesn't look very transparent to me (another place for configuration
maintenance). What about optional parameter for $LINKLIB or something like that?

Tomas