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<div style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;">I'm currently writing a python C module which has a chained dependency:</div>
<div style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;">- mymodule requires libb</div>
<div style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;">- libb requires liba <br>
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<div style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;">To that effect, within setup.py, I link against both liba and libb</div>
<div style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"> libraries=['a', 'b'],</div>
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<div style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;">Also, as I'm working on Ubuntu, I want to add -Wl,--no-as-needed to make sure that the symbols not immediately needed will still be stripped.</div>
<div style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"> extra_link_args=['-Wl,--no-as-needed'],<br>
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<div style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;">However, it seems that the extra_link_args are systematically appended at the end of the link line, but for this to work, the '-Wl,--no-as-needed' argument need to be *before* the link against my two libraries.</div>
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<div style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;">How can I choose the order of my link arguments that I pass to gcc using setup.py ?</div>
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<div style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;">Best regards,<br>
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<p>Gabriel Ganne<br>
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