On 1 August 2010 08:30, pancake <panc...@youterm.com> wrote: > Cant this be done with a wraper shellscript ? Messing with gnu ld is like a > near death experience.
Indeed, it can be done using some shell scripts but it'll be quite slow. My initial efforts were gold related, though that's written in C++ which is a bit annoying. > Using r2libs can also be possible.. But would be more complex than a few loc > shellscript. > > That's what libtool does ( between many other silly things) which we dont > need, and certainly i would prefer to be cmpiler agnostic and be able to use > tcc or llvm. Afaik gold is compiler agnostic as long as ELF is involved. > Inthe other side u can do this by specifying --enable-static and > --dudable-shared in any prj using autofools (webkit, X11 ..) > > I dont get the point with the 'tee like' With tee-like I mean that the static libraries are created in a different place for later linking lookups, but also to support the normal behavior in order that vanilla builds run through smoothly, since they usually check for libsomething.so's to carry on. A simplified example, imagine: ld -o libsomething.so foo.o bar.o baz.o The tee-like behavior would result in libsomething.so and some archive in /different/place/lib/libsomething.a If an executable is involed: ld -o something /lib/crt0.o libsomething.so we perform a static link and ignore all .so's involved and look for /different/place/lib/libsomething.a instead. With this in place we should get quite far with building most sta.li dependencies and executables. Cheers, Anselm
