End of story. So it may actually be that we can honestly claim that the half-fix is actually a proper fix. I would have to look a lot closer at the issue to be able to guarantee this, though. We can add a comment to the Makefile. What's not trivial, and what I WANT DONE is to make sure that when somebody wants to maintain link ordering, he can do so in an easy and obvious way.
Simplicity is good.
Lazy programmers are the best programmers. Think Tom Sawyer painting the fence. Requiring almost no effort is a big plus in my book. I'm afraid of. It' s entirely untested, but it looks good and compiles.