Feature request for Slink

When a library name is given to SLINK, eg.,

slink a.obj b.obj xyz.lib

and the library file xyz.lib is not found, SLINK reports unresolved external references, but does not say that it could not find the library.

For example, if my code uses the function dnrm2() and I specify BLAS.lib to SLINK, the reported error is about dnrm2 not being resolved, rather than about BLAS.lib not being found. This may lead to attempts to fix name mangling, etc., which of course will not work; then I remember to check the LIB environment variable and set it to make BLAS.lib accessible.

Request: if a .LIB or .DLL file is specified in the SLINK command line, make SLINK report '... file not found'.

SLINK already does this and it has probably not changed in this respect since it was first released.