On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 9:28 AM, Lynn A. Boger <labo...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote: > To make it easier to use gotools go and gofmt, add -static-libgo when > linking them. This makes it nicer > in all cases since it eliminates the dependency on libgo.so for these tools, > but it is mostly helpful for > the cross compiled case. When building for use in the cross compiled case, > this allows for go and gofmt > to be built with a gccgo that is available during the build but then > libgo.so is not a dependency when using go > or gofmt once the build is finished.
This was already tried and rejected. See http://gcc.gnu.org/PR64738 . I think that if you really want this you need to make it a configure option or make variable. We don't seem to use GOLDFLAGS; perhaps we should. Then you could set it from make or configure. Ian
