It appears that the command line I use in gcc-2.9x for building s static version of a program fails with gcc-3.0. It also appears, from the documentation, that there is a switch to make it work anyway.
This works with the 2.9x version. g++ -o bin/program o/object1.o ... -static This fails g++-3.0 -o bin/program o/object1.o ... -static because gcc-3.0 cannot find the libgcc_s.a file. /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lgcc_s Indeed, there is no such thing. According to the man page g++-3.0 -o bin/program o/object1.o ... -static -shared-libgcc ought to prevent a search for the libgcc_s.a library. Instead, it returns the same error. I built gcc-3.0 from source (gcc-3.0-3.0.3ds3) to see if there was a libgcc_s.a file. I found none. So. I thought I might try to hack it cd /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-linux=3.0.3 ln -s libgcc.a libgcc_s.a g++-3.0 -o bin/program o/object1.o ... -static Voila. The file links and runs. There is a note in the man page about how C++ programs need to use a shared version of libgcc. Can you shed some light on this? Should I expect this program run properly?
