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Re: Libtool drops -static from LDFLAGS?
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Ossama Othman |
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Re: Libtool drops -static from LDFLAGS? |
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Tue, 8 May 2001 09:05:08 -0700 |
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Hi Alexandre,
On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 07:49:30AM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> > Libtool drops the user supplied "-static" flag (e.g. in $LDFLAGS) from
> > the link command. Is this what we want?
>
> Yep. To really force static linking, use -all-static. -static tells
> libtool to *prefer* static libraries, not to *require* them.
Right, but the problem is that is it prevents users who "know what
they're doing" from using gcc's "-static" option. It seems to me that
libtool shouldn't do this sort of "filtering."
-Ossama
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