[TUHS] Deleted lib1 and lib2 in v6, recoverable?

[Donald ODona]

At 30 Dec 2018 18:35:22 +0000 (+00:00) from Paul Winalski <paul.winalski at gmail.com>:
> 
> I think this has been pretty much universal behavior for all linkers
> on all OSes since the 1960s.  It continues to be true today.
> 
> Sometimes one runs into a situation where a module loaded from lib1.a
> has an undefined symbol that causes a module from lib2.a to be loaded,
> and that module in turn has an undefined symbol that is defined in
> lib1.a.  In that case, you have to cause the linker to scan lib1.a
> twice:
> 
>     ld main.o lib1.a lib2.a lib1.a
> 
thats not true, because the M$ and borland linkers of the 80ths under MSDOS(sic!) already processed indexed libraries. Therefore the multiple inclusion of libraries wans'nt needed.