Typo in Developers Handbook

Tom Rhodes trhodes at FreeBSD.org
Wed Dec 8 01:29:46 UTC 2004


On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 17:21:44 -0800
beowuff <beowuff at gmail.com> wrote:

> Found a small typo in the developers-handbook.
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/tools-compiling.html
> 
> Section 2.4
> 
> <snip>
> -llibrary
> 
>     Specify a function library to be used during when linking.
> 
> </snip>

This isn't a typo.

You specify -l to inform cc(1) that you are working with a
library.  It takes the form of -l<LIBRARY_NAME>.

Thanks though.

-- 
Tom Rhodes



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