Re: MAC OS X, static compilation and libtool

[George Bosilca]

Peter, Ralf,

As far as I see libtool internally do the right thing (all our  
executables and tests compile correctly). The real problem seems to  
come from the fact that we extract the libtool compilation and linking  
flags in order to use them inside our wrapper, and that we use -l and - 
L instead of the absolute path to the libraries.

Peter email confirmed that we should use the full path to our  
libraries, instead of expecting a specific behavior from the linker. I  
will replace all (-l and -L) with the full path to our libraries,  
which definitively looks like the cleanest approach.

  Thanks,
    george.

On Mar 18, 2008, at 2:48 AM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:

> 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

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