http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54630
--- Comment #5 from Larry Baker <baker at usgs dot gov> 2012-09-21 19:16:50 UTC --- >From what I can tell from the GCC Link Options web page (http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Link-Options.html#index-static_002dlibgcc-1032), -static-libstdc++ is only a g++ driver option: -static-libstdc++ When the g++ program is used to link a C++ program, it normally automatically links against libstdc++. If libstdc++ is available as a shared library, and the -static option is not used, then this links against the shared version of libstdc++. That is normally fine. However, it is sometimes useful to freeze the version of libstdc++ used by the program without going all the way to a fully static link. The -static-libstdc++ option directs the g++ driver to link libstdc++ statically, without necessarily linking other libraries statically. There appears to be no way to pass -static-libstdc++ to the g++ driver for linking. --with-host-libstdcxx=-static-libstdc++ will cause gcc/Makefile to use gcc for the LINKER, instead of just passing the -static-libstdc++ option to the g++ driver.
