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> I thought -lpth as a switch should be before the files to be included
> in compilation since it is a switch.  I thought that if it was at the
> end it would be interpreted as a filename.

GCC doesn't interpret command line options that way.  The -l option
means "the next name is a library" and it's a shortcut for a much more
lengthy name you'd have to use, so it goes in where the library would
have gone.  There are other options that are order-senstitive too,
since yes, the GNU linker is order-sensitive.