Yet more makefile problems

[BrianDrozd]

Okay, here's the situation. I have several static libraries that I'm trying to link into my executable. I have an older makefile, but have added several makefiles since then. The provided makefile, however, as some of the older libraries repeatedly. (i.e. -lutl -los -lutl). Why do I have to list libraries more than once? And just how do I figure out what libraries to duplicate and where?

[Stuka]

That don't make much sense...why would you need to statically link a lib more than once?

[BrianDrozd]

Originally posted by Stuka:
That don't make much sense...why would you need to statically link a lib more than once?

Damned if I know. (Hence, my question.) All I know is that I get a slew of undefined symbols if I don't. Could it be because I'm comiling the libraries wrong somehow? (Somebody else wrote the makefile, so I don't know if its right or not.)