Inability to specify linking order for external libraries

[brycelelbach]

[reported by manderson] [Trac time Wed May 9 18:26:59 2012] HPX provides no way to specify the linking order for external libraries. The exodusII libraries (http://sourceforge.net/projects/exodusii) are only static and must be linked last for success. There is no way to specify this. In order to proceed, I have to manually link. What a nuisance!

[brycelelbach]

[comment by blelbach] [Trac time Sun Jun 3 21:45:52 2012] Okay, working on fixing this. However, I should note that exodusii can be built as a shared library using CMake, and the Debian/RPM packages for exodusii provide shared libraries, not static libraries.

[brycelelbach]

[comment by blelbach] [Trac time Mon Jun 4 03:18:25 2012] Okay, just use set_target_properties. For example:

set_target_properties(jacobi_mpi_simple_exe PROPERTIES LINK_FLAGS "${MPI_CXX_LINK_FLAGS} ${OpenMP_CXX_FLAGS}")

You'll want to do something like

set_target_properties(foo_exe PROPERTIES LINK_FLAGS "/path/to/libbar.a")