http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=8127

           Summary: dmd link library paths not given precedence over gcc
                    defaults
           Product: D
           Version: D2
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: DMD
        AssignedTo: nobody@puremagic.com
        ReportedBy: john@neggie.net


--- Comment #0 from John Belmonte <john@neggie.net> 2012-05-20 19:53:57 PDT ---
Given a machine with globally installed D libraries such as phobos2 which appear in gcc's default library paths, dmd provides no way to supply a library path with higher precedence.  Any -L-L/path/... given to dmd will have lower precedence.  This makes it very difficult to manage local dmd installs, where it's essential to override any globally installed versions of the phobos2 library.  Likewise for any third-party D libraries which one may be developing.

I believe the problem stems from dmd's inconsistent use of the -Xlinker flag. The -l and -L link options exist in both native gcc and pass-through forms (latter by way of -Xlinker or -Wl.  The dmd link line uses the gcc native form for -l, but the pass-through form for -L.  This pattern appears to give precedence to gcc's default library paths during library searches.

If link.c is changed to use native gcc options for both -l and -L, the library paths supplied to -L will be given precedence over gcc default paths.

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--- Comment #2 from github-bugzilla@puremagic.com 2012-05-23 23:13:51 PDT ---
Commits pushed to master at https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd

https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/commit/4dbf21ec176de2e1d8e42a538173c4582a25f1c9 fix Issue 8127 - dmd link library paths not given precedence over gcc defaults

https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/commit/e95ee9e91a5d0aea169e68fb84d0d92684d22258 Merge pull request #962 from belm0/linker_path_order

fix Issue 8127 - dmd link library paths not given precedence over gcc defaults

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Walter Bright <bugzilla@digitalmars.com> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|ASSIGNED                    |RESOLVED
                 CC|                            |bugzilla@digitalmars.com
         Resolution|                            |FIXED
           Severity|normal                      |enhancement


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