Re: per-deplib static/dynamic flags

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Thu, 2 Feb 2006, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > I would love to be able to supply LDFLAGS options to configure and
> > have them work appropriately within the configure script, and then
> > work similarly for libtool.
>
> Note that `-Wl,-Bstatic' will *not* be useful in LDFLAGS, but LIBS at
> best, because of the ordering issues.

Minor issue.  No complaints here!

> > If the options do not work in LDFLAGS,
> > then it will be necessary to pass them explicitly via the Makefile.
> >
> > In this case
> >
> >  -Wl,-Bstatic
> >
> > may work better even though it is more obtuse.
>
> I don't see any reason against supporting both
>   -force-static and -Wl,-Bstatic
> as two names for the same thing.

I like that.  There are likely linkers which will reject -Wl,-Bstatic, 
but at least it provides an opportunity for success with configure.

In the future, we should discuss some way to support pre-processing of 
options passed to the configure script so that configure tests work as 
closely to libtool as possible.  I don't know how to address that now.

> By the way, I'd like to fix ordering issues for `-Wl,'-given flags that
> we don't understand, too; there have been several bug reports about
> this.

Order is often quite important.

Bob
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