KNOWN_BUGS: LDFLAGS passed too late

Makes linking fail on some (ancient) platforms.

Closes #14893
Closes #15306

diff --git a/docs/KNOWN_BUGS b/docs/KNOWN_BUGS
index 2b04630a9ea151a7dbbf868cd0ab6d68bacf42d2..5a1e5eeaada32778160840c561d605bda4a399ac 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/KNOWN_BUGS
+++ b/docs/KNOWN_BUGS
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ problems may have been fixed or changed somewhat since this was written.
  5. Build and portability issues
  5.1 OS400 port requires deprecated IBM library
  5.2 curl-config --libs contains private details
+ 5.3 LDFLAGS passed too late making libs linked incorrectly
  5.6 Cygwin: make install installs curl-config.1 twice
  5.11 configure --with-gssapi with Heimdal is ignored on macOS
  5.12 flaky CI builds
@@ -225,6 +226,14 @@ problems may have been fixed or changed somewhat since this was written.
  that might be needed only for building libcurl. Further, curl-config --cflags
  suffers from the same effects with CFLAGS/CPPFLAGS.
 
+5.3 LDFLAGS passed too late making libs linked incorrectly
+
+ Compiling latest curl on HP-UX and linking against a custom OpenSSL (which is
+ on the default loader/linker path), fails because the generated Makefile has
+ LDFLAGS passed on after LIBS.
+
+ See https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/14893
+
 5.6 Cygwin: make install installs curl-config.1 twice
 
  https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/8839