What is wrong if someone like me is fighting several hours to link a simple main.o to a library? Right, I’m trying to figure out why libtool is reshuffling my library paths…but now I think I have a pretty approximation of what libtool is doing.

while True:
random_library_path_order = randomize(sane_input)
if not link(stuff, random_library_path_order):
error(“Error you are not going to fix, sucker!”)

Let us deprecate libtool as fast as possible and let us start by making it an empty stub. I have wasted way too much time with it.

PS: Without libtool gcc is able to link this stuff just fine, so libtool is creating an artificial problem which is against any of engineering practive. It should solve problems but not be the problem… back to school boys!