dmd's linking order

[Jonathan M Davis]

This stackoverflow question raises an interesting issue with linking order and 
dmd:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10095150/std-net-curl-linker-errors-in-linux

I don't know if it's this way on Linux machines in general, but the OP had to 
link his program manually to be able to use std.curl. dmd appears to put the -
L argument before any of its own linker arguments, and in this case, the 
linking argument for curl needs to go on the end.

So, my question is whether dmd should be changed to put any -L arguments 
passed to it after the arguments that it passes to the linker itself. I'm far 
from an expert on this and am quite surprised that the order of arguments to 
the linker matters, but since it does, it seems to me that we should find the 
optimal order for dmd to use if we can, since it's not terribly user friendly 
to force people to call gcc or ld directly rather than using dmd to link just 
because they want to pass an argument to the linker. That's what the -L flag is 
supposed to be for.

- Jonathan M Davis