Re: Should libtool link in libgcc when building a shared library?

[Steve Ellcey]

> From: Bob Friesenhahn <address@hidden>
>
> > I would just like to verify that the intended behaviour of libtool, when
> > using GCC to build a shared library, is to *not* automatically include
> > '-lgcc' on the link line used to build the shared library.
> 
> Libtool does not include '-lgcc' because it is a compiler-specific 
> support library that the compiler normally provides.  It may not make 
> sense to use -lgcc if a different compiler is used.

libtool certainly would not want to explicitly add '-lgcc' to a link
line, my question is why libtool goes out of its way to remove '-lgcc'
(by using the -nostdlib option).  The issue of different compilers does
not seem to apply here because we know we are using GCC (otherwise we
couldn't add -nostdlib).

Steve Ellcey
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