[MITgcm-devel] linking order in genmake2

[Patrick Heimbach]

Yes.
I guess I confused Ed, sorry.
Not urgent anyways, merging seems to go very well so far.
-p.

Chris Hill wrote:
> Patrick,
> 
>  You mean linking as in soft links with "ln -s" not linking as in linking
> and loading with "ld" - is that right?
> 
> Chris
> 
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: mitgcm-devel-bounces at mitgcm.org 
>>[mailto:mitgcm-devel-bounces at mitgcm.org] On Behalf Of Ed Hill
>>Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 8:36 PM
>>To: MITgcm-devel
>>Subject: Re: [MITgcm-devel] linking order in genmake2
>>
>>On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 18:56, Patrick Heimbach wrote:
>>
>>>Hi Ed,
>>>
>>>I have a question regarding the linking order in genmake2.
>>>Is it always alpabetical?
>>>For example, since mom_fluxform comes before mom_vecinv 
>>
>>that seems to 
>>
>>>work fine.
>>>Now I have routines in pkg/ecco/ which should supersede routines in 
>>>pkg/cost/ I was hoping that by placing 'ecco' ahead of 'cost'
>>>in packages.conf might do the trick, but apparently it doesn't.
>>
>>
>>Hi Patrick,
>>
>>Off the top of my head, heres two possible approaches:
>>
>>  1) come up with a way to exclude the unwanted subroutines 
>>     so the compiler/linker can't pick the unwanted ones, or
>>
>>  2) build using static libraries so that we force the linker 
>>     to see certain routines first.
>>
>>Could you send me some more concrete examples?  I'll be happy 
>>to re-work our makefile to do either of the above.
>>
>>Ed
>>
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