On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 10:55:56AM +0200, François-Xavier Coudert wrote: > >Sorry about the (possibly off) question: would this apply also to > >GMP/MPFR, if not, wouldn't it make sense? > > GMP and MPFR are host libraries, so it is actually an independent > issue. However, it might be worth having --with-static-gmp and > --with-static-mpfr to request static linking of these libraries into > the compiler. I think I suggested the idea (maybe even a patch, but I > can't find it in the mailing-list archives) when gmp/mpfr was still > only used by Fortran. > > In the end, some people will think it's stretching the configury too > much for a specific purpose, and some people will think it's just a > good option to have. (I'm in the second group.) Let's wait and see > what people think of the idea.
I just keep this local patch. H.J. ---- --- gcc/Makefile.in.gmp 2006-05-19 06:23:09.000000000 -0700 +++ gcc/Makefile.in 2006-05-19 13:20:17.000000000 -0700 @@ -295,7 +295,7 @@ ZLIB = @zlibdir@ -lz ZLIBINC = @zlibinc@ # How to find GMP -GMPLIBS = @GMPLIBS@ +GMPLIBS = -Wl,-Bstatic @GMPLIBS@ -Wl,-Bdynamic GMPINC = @GMPINC@ CPPLIB = ../libcpp/libcpp.a