HI,

Let's say that we have a variable LIBS:

LIBS='-lpq -lmysqlclient -lssl -lpthread -lresolv -lssl -lpthread -lresolv'

I'd want to get:

LIBS='-lpq -lmysqlclient -lssl -lpthread -lresolv'

Bear in mind that LIBS can be variable, I mean I need to drop any duplicate and only retain the last one of each different entry. And we must keep the order as is, I must not sort out them.

So, if LIBS is:

LIBS='-lpq -lmysqlclient -lpthread -lresolv -lpthread -lresolv'

I need: LIBS='-lpq -lmysqlclient -lpthread -lresolv'

Thanks in advance!!

Why do you want to do that? It could break certain link dependencies - if you had "-la -lb -la" it would be turned into "-la -lb", but if libb depends on liba then it could fail to link unless you pass certain special options to the linker to iterate through libraries repeatedly (the default is to go through once, and only use libraries later in the list to resolve dependencies for the current library). This would especially be a problem when linking statically.

Is it just for interest, or do you expect some benefit from this? If the latter, I'd say don't bother - it'll cause problems while solving none.

Thanks for see beyond that emerging problem

I don't want that -la -lb -la turn into -la -lb, but -lb -la

The problem that the macro as is can only be used once, otherwise override the earlier library on LIBS, so I append as a quick and dirty workaround at the end:

You may take a look at macro code onhttp://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf..._have_lib.html

But weirdly causes the some entries duplicated, I wonder is that is harmful. What do you think?

Thanks in advance