Linking issues [ was: Re: [HOpenGL] Re: ANNOUNCE: HOpenGL 1.05 released]

[Sven Panne]

Glynn Clements wrote:
> [...] You should be able to work around the problem by adding -lXxf86vm to
> the link command, but it has to come *after* the -lfreeglut-1.3
> switch.

Glad to hear this. :-) Some people on this mailing list had linking troubles,
especially with GHCi and GLUT/GLU/GL. AFAIK there are basically two kinds of
platforms: Ones where the relative order of libraries on the linker commandline
does not matter and ones where you have to mention a library B used by a library
A after it, i.e. in the order "-lA -lB". Solaris falls in this category, see e.g.
my patches submitted to the Mesa project:

    http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=544638&group_id=3&atid=300003
    http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/mesa3d/Mesa/demos/Makefile.am?r1=1.29&r2=1.30

If the GLUT package doesn't work with GHCi on some platforms, the exact circumstances
would be interesting. On x86 Linux the order "-lglut -lGLU -lGL <some X11 libs>" works
perfectly. Perhaps there are some dlopen() incompatibilities between different platforms.
Any experts in this area on this list?

Cheers,
    S.