Hi, Is there some safe and architecture - independant way to tell libtool to link one of the libraries statically, with all others remaining dynamic? This is to produce a php-fpm binary file.
For argument's sake let's call the library "library" in /usr/lib, meaning there are 2 files there "liblibrary.a" and "liblibrary.so" So far I have seen 3 ways: * Prefix with a simicolon and specify the full filename -l:liblibrary.a (where filename.a is the static library) * -lsomesharedlibs --Bstatic -lliblibrary --Bdynamic -lsomesharedlibs * -static -lliblibrary -dynamic (or -archive -lliblibrary -shared for HP-UX ld) I tried the first option which works for ubuntu however 2 of my users came back said it simply doesn't work on CentOS. This make sense as not all versions of the ld program advertise this -l:filename syntax. Clearly it might make sense to put some case statement to handle any os-specific deviations. However i'm fairly dubious that these second and third options actually stand a chance of working with libtool. For some reason autoconf / libtool re-arrages the ld flags into it's own preferred order, rather than the specific order they would need to be in. So whatever I write in the LDFLAGS variable, libtool will dutifully come along and spit out -static -dynamic at the beginning of the link line, then bunch all the libraries together, with -lliblibrary coming somewhere near the end after all the dynamic ones. Kindda sucks, to be honest, unless there's some way to getting libtool not to re-arrange certain flags. Although in all fairness to libtool, it more seems like only the -lliblibrary flag is the one that is being moved. There must be some kind of work-around to this. If not, should i file a bug? Best regards, dreamcat4 dreamc...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool