Re: problems statically linking thirdparty libs and dynamically linking glibc

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Thu, 15 Jul 2004, Christopher Baus wrote:
> Ok so now I want a static std c++ lib, static thirdparty libs, and dynamic
> glibc.  Passing -static to libtool seemed to do nothing.  So, I am now
> passing -Wl, -static to libtool.  I now get the following strange error:
>
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lgcc_s
>
> hmm ok
>
> find /usr/ -name *libgcc_s*
> /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/3.3.2/libgcc_s.so
> /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/3.2.3/libgcc_s.so
>
> Seems to be there.
>
> I've seen it mentioned that this is a bug in g++.  Is that true?  I am at
> my wits end here.  Any suggestions?

It is not a bug in g++.  The GCC 3.X series introduced a shared 
libgcc_s.so.  There is no longer a static libgcc.

You will not be able to achieve a full static link using GCC unless 
you configure/build GCC so that it doesn't use shared libraries.

Bob
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