Re: Experimenting with reduced gcc-lib

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi!

Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu> skribis:

> Le 15 décembre 2022 15:34:02 GMT+01:00, "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org> a 
> écrit :
>>>         (outputs '("out"                    ;commands, etc. (60+ MiB)
>>> -                  "lib"                    ;libgcc_s, libgomp, etc. (15+ 
>>> MiB)
>>> +                  "shared-lib"             ;libgcc_s, libgomp, etc. (5+ 
>>> MiB)
>>> +                  "static-lib"             ;object code libraries and 
>>> internal data files of GCC. (10+ MiB)
>>
>>The convention is to use “lib” for shared libraries and “static” for
>>static libraries.
>
> But using lib introduces a --libdir argument which is used to install static 
> libs…

I see.  Then maybe we should override the ‘configure’ phase, or repeat
‘--libdir’ in the hope that the second one wins?

>>Is libgomp in “lib”?  Is it found when linking with ‘-fopenmp’?
>
> Well, shared-lib should be renaimed into libgcc, because it's the only 
> library there.

OK.

> Libgomp amd all other libs are in static-lib (which is not well named either 
> ^^'). It will be found I think but not tested (it find libstdc++ in the same 
> directory).

Heh.  :-)

I think it would be great to have all the .a in a separate output.

Thanks,
Ludo’.