Re: Libtool drops -static from LDFLAGS?

2001-05-09 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On May 8, 2001, Ossama Othman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Right, but the problem is that is it prevents users who know what they're doing from using gcc's -static option. Nope. -all-static does that. It's in the libtool manual. If they ``know what they're doing'', they should know that :-D

Re: Libtool drops -static from LDFLAGS?

2001-05-09 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi Alexandre, On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 03:55:36PM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote: On May 8, 2001, Ossama Othman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Right, but the problem is that is it prevents users who know what they're doing from using gcc's -static option. Nope. -all-static does that. It's in

Re: Libtool drops -static from LDFLAGS?

2001-05-08 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On May 7, 2001, Ossama Othman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Libtool drops the user supplied -static flag (e.g. in $LDFLAGS) from the link command. Is this what we want? Yep. To really force static linking, use -all-static. -static tells libtool to *prefer* static libraries, not to *require*

Re: Libtool drops -static from LDFLAGS?

2001-05-08 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi Alexandre, On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 07:49:30AM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote: Libtool drops the user supplied -static flag (e.g. in $LDFLAGS) from the link command. Is this what we want? Yep. To really force static linking, use -all-static. -static tells libtool to *prefer* static

Libtool drops -static from LDFLAGS?

2001-05-07 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, Libtool drops the user supplied -static flag (e.g. in $LDFLAGS) from the link command. Is this what we want? This behavior has been a source of confusion for some users. -Ossama -- Ossama Othman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Distributed Object Computing Laboratory, Univ. of California at Irvine