Re: per-deplib static/dynamic flags

[Albert Chin]

On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 12:47:51AM -0600, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> On Tue, 31 Jan 2006, Albert Chin wrote:
> 
> >On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 10:28:52PM +0100, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> >>- Should the corresponding libtool flags be named `-Bstatic' resp.
> >>  `-Bdynamic'?  Those were the most common names I could find, but IMHO
> >>  they are not very self-explanatory for users not used to them.
> >
> >-prefer-static, -prefer-dynamic/-prefer-shared? The -Bxxx doesn't seem
> >similar with current libtool options.
> 
> At least for the static case, I would prefer the link to entirely fail 
> if a static library is requested but one can not be found.  Usually 
> there is a very important reason to use a static library if it has 
> specifically been requested.  So the wording should not be 'prefer' 
> for the static case.  I agree that the -B syntax does not fit the 
> style of other libtool options (but does match many linkers).

Fine. -Bstatic on Linux means "Do not link against shared libraries."
anyway.

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albert chin (address@hidden)