Re: MAC OS X, static compilation and libtool

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello Peter, George,

* Peter O'Gorman wrote on Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 06:40:59AM CET:
> George Bosilca wrote:
> > 
> > After digging into the gcc man pages, I found that in order to have the
> > expected behavior (or at least what I think is expected: look into the
> > user provided lib path for all libraries independing if they are static
> > or dynamic) one has to add the -Wl,-search_paths_first flags to the link
> > command. From the gcc documentation, it seems that this is not
> > necessarily MAC OS X specific (but I didn't test it elsewhere).

> If linking libtool libraries, then libtool should add the full path to
> the static archive (e.g. ../foo/libfoo.a) when calling the linker. This
> will overcome even the OS X linker which searches all -L paths for a
> dylib before going back to the start again looking for a .a.

So all libs linked with -static should be fine (-static links statically
all uninstalled libtool libraries), as should be all linked with
-static-libtool-libs (which links statically all libtool libraries), no?

That --disable-shared was given will only prevent libtool from creating
shared libraries, not from using them.

> Feel free to add -Wl,-search_paths_first to LDFLAGS if $host is darwin*.
> 
> I am not sure that this should be handled in libtool, I'd be fine with
> adding it by default if another maintainer agrees.

Are you speaking about the -all-static case now?  Or some other case?

Thanks,
Ralf