Re: patch for static linking

[Brad Garcia]

On Fri, 31 Aug 2001, Steven Knight wrote:

> Why not do it with a cloned environment that sets SUFLIBS to just the
> static suffix?

Because it is possible to switch between dynamic linking and static
linking on a single command line.

For instance:

    g++ -o foo a.o b.o -Wl,-Bstatic -lcompat -Wl,-Bdynamic -llib2

The provided patch handles this correctly, switching between searching
for only static libraries and searching for dynamic, then static as
these linking options are parsed.


Brad Garcia