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Diffstat (limited to 'ld/emultempl')
| -rw-r--r-- | ld/emultempl/pe.em | 31 |
1 files changed, 24 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/ld/emultempl/pe.em b/ld/emultempl/pe.em index 582d541..0ffeffc 100644 --- a/ld/emultempl/pe.em +++ b/ld/emultempl/pe.em @@ -1387,16 +1387,33 @@ gld_${EMULATION_NAME}_open_dynamic_archive (arch, search, entry) sprintf (string, "%s/%s.dll.a", search->name, filename); if (! ldfile_try_open_bfd (string, entry)) { - /* Try "libfoo.dll" (preferred dll name) */ - sprintf (string, "%s/lib%s.dll", search->name, filename); +/* + Try libfoo.a next. Normally, this would be interpreted as a static + library, but it *could* be an import library. For backwards compatibility, + libfoo.a needs to ==precede== libfoo.dll and foo.dll in the search, + or sometimes errors occur when building legacy packages. + + Putting libfoo.a here means that in a failure case (i.e. the library + -lfoo is not found) we will search for libfoo.a twice before + giving up -- once here, and once when searching for a "static" lib. + for a "static" lib. +*/ + /* Try "libfoo.a" (import lib, or static lib, but must + take precedence over dll's) */ + sprintf (string, "%s/lib%s.a", search->name, filename); if (! ldfile_try_open_bfd (string, entry)) - { - /* Finally, try "foo.dll" (alternate dll name) */ - sprintf (string, "%s/%s.dll", search->name, filename); + { + /* Try "libfoo.dll" (preferred dll name) */ + sprintf (string, "%s/lib%s.dll", search->name, filename); if (! ldfile_try_open_bfd (string, entry)) { - free (string); - return false; + /* Finally, try "foo.dll" (alternate dll name) */ + sprintf (string, "%s/%s.dll", search->name, filename); + if (! ldfile_try_open_bfd (string, entry)) + { + free (string); + return false; + } } } } |