Stefan Seefeld wrote: > Robert Kern wrote: >>Not really, no. In many cases (e.g., GNU ld), there's simply no way to tell >>the >>linker that you prefer static libraries to shared libraries when you are >>building a shared library like a Python extension. You simply have to make >>sure >>that the static libraries are found first. > > I believe this is wrong. The (GNU ld) man pages mention '-Bdynamic' and > '-Bstatic' > as a means to instruct the linker to link to a particular library dynamically > or > statically. (To only link statically to libbar.a you could write e.g. > > ... -lfoo -Bstatic -lbar -Bdynamic -lbaz > > etc.)
Ah, yes, you are correct. Unfortunately, OS X's ld does not have these options (and is not GNU; I am an idiot). -- Robert Kern [EMAIL PROTECTED] "In the fields of hell where the grass grows high Are the graves of dreams allowed to die." -- Richard Harter _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig