Correcting the GCC command line ordering using Automake

Question

I have an autotools project that compiles just fine on the Mac, but under Linux (Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS) the command lines passed to gcc have the libraries out of order

Answer 1

The solution turned out to be the difference between LDFLAGS and LDADD. In short LDFLAGS is added before the object files on the command line and LDADD is added afterwards. Thus, changing Makefile.am to the following solved the problem:

CFLAGS=-Wall
bin_PROGRAMS=test
test_CFLAGS=$(GLIB_CFLAGS)
test_LDADD=$(GLIB_LIBS)
test_SOURCES=test.c

It only took tracking down a GCC developer at work to solve. Also, this example I provided is rather poor because test has a defined meaning in some contexts of autotools.