Re: Favoring static linking at configure time

[Brian Dessent]

Benoit Sigoure wrote:

> > Of course there is: -Wl,-Bstatic -lfoo -Wl,-Bdynamic
> 
> Hmm I didn't know this.  How portable is it?  I guess a gccism, but
> is it even portable across versions/ports of GCC?

It doesn't really have anything to do with gcc, it's the linker that
interprets these options.  -Wl is the only part gcc sees and that has
been in gcc forever.  I'm not sure if other compilers have options for
"pass this to the linker" or not.

-B seems to be fairly portable; all of the following support it:

GNU ld:
<http://sourceware.org/binutils/docs-2.18/ld/Options.html>

Solaris ld:
<http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-2239/6n4hsf6n2?l=en&a=view>

FreeBSD ld:
<http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ld&apropos=0&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+6.2-RELEASE&format=html>

NetBSD ld:
<http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?ld++NetBSD-current>

Irix ld:
<http://techpubs.sgi.com/library/tpl/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?coll=0650&db=man&fname=/usr/share/catman/u_man/cat1/ld.z>

Looks like Tru64 does not however:
<http://h30097.www3.hp.com/docs/base_doc/DOCUMENTATION/V51_HTML/MAN/MAN1/0180____.HTM>

Brian