On Aug 5, 2011, at 5:55 AM, Brice Goglin wrote: >> Libtool's -all-static flag probably resolves to some gcc flag(s), right? >> Can you just pass those in via CFLAGS / LDFLAGS to configure and then not >> pass anything in via make? > > I only see an additional -static flag on the final program-link gcc > command-line when -all-static is given to libtool. But if you pass > LDFLAGS=-static to configure, it's interpreted by libtool and gcc > doesn't get a -static when linking programs.
Well, that's certainly yucky. As a *guess*, this sounds like this is an artifact of Libtool not having a distinct namespace for its CLI arguments (i.e., Libtool assuming that "-static" is intended as a Libtool argument, not a compiler/linker argument). -- Jeff Squyres jsquy...@cisco.com For corporate legal information go to: http://www.cisco.com/web/about/doing_business/legal/cri/