Re: --whole-archive doesn't work on OSX

[Peter O'Gorman]

On Aug 2, 2006, at 10:24 AM, Andrew Miller wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have just posted a bug regarding libtool on OSX to http:// 
> savannah.gnu.org/support/index.php?func=detailitem&item_id=105489
>
> I'm not sure if that is the right place to post bugs, so in case it  
> isn't, here is the text of the report:
>
> This bug tested on:
> Darwin bioeng21.bioeng.auckland.ac.nz 8.7.0 Darwin Kernel Version  
> 8.7.0: Fri May 26 15:20:53 PDT 2006; root:xnu-792.6.76.obj~1/ 
> RELEASE_PPC Power Macintosh powerpc
>
> It seems that recent versions of libtool don't support the --whole- 
> archive on MacOSX. This causes the --whole-archive flag to be  
> passed to gcc (which seems to be silently ignored on OSX),  
> resulting in a link which doesn't really contain the whole archive.
> For example:

--whole-archive is not a libtool flag, where do you see documentation  
that states you can pass --whole-archive to libtool?

Peter