c++ - undefined reference to glutInit in program that compiled with the same commands just 2 weeks ago

My ubuntu installation recently died and I'm now reconstruction everything.

I have a file that I know recently compiled and worked with the same comment. This is a simple opengl-glut based program.

It compiles with the following line :

g++ -lGL -lGLU -lglut -I . *.cp

this gives the following error code:

main.cpp:(.text+0x2de): undefined reference to `glGetDoublev'
/tmp/cc9vO929.o: In function `tbVisuTransform()':
main.cpp:(.text+0x2fd): undefined reference to `glMultMatrixd'
/tmp/cc9vO929.o: In function `tbMotionFunc(int, int)':
main.cpp:(.text+0x4f5): undefined reference to `glLoadIdentity'

main.cpp:(.text+0x523): undefined reference to `glRotatef'
main.cpp:(.text+0x52d): undefined reference to `glMultMatrixd'
main.cpp:(.text+0x53c): undefined reference to `glGetDoublev'
main.cpp:(.text+0x649): undefined reference to `glLoadIdentity'
main.cpp:(.text+0x665): undefined reference to `glRotatef'
main.cpp:(.text+0x66f): undefined reference to `glMultMatrixd'
main.cpp:(.text+0x67e): undefined reference to `glGetDoublev'
main.cpp:(.text+0x724): undefined reference to `glutPostRedisplay'
/tmp/cc9vO929.o: In function `tbRotate(double, double, double, double)':
main.cpp:(.text+0x78c): undefined reference to `glLoadIdentity'

main.cpp:(.text+0x7b5): undefined reference to `glRotatef'
main.cpp:(.text+0x7bf): undefined reference to `glMultMatrixd'
main.cpp:(.text+0x7ce): undefined reference to `glGetDoublev'

this goes on for quite a while.
I have already installed the build essential and freeglut.
sudo apt-get install build-essential
sudo apt-get install freeglut3 freeglut3-dev

anybody got any ideas?

I already tried what they said here:
Error with GLUT compile in ubuntu

Note that I upgraded from ubuntu 12.04 to 14.04 if that matters.

Answer

Based on this and this links, Ubuntu has changed the default linking strategy in Oneiric (Ubuntu 11.10).

As Oneiric and later versions use the --as-needed flag by default, the order of the libraries does matter in Ubuntu.