Re: per-deplib static/dynamic flags

[Peter O'Gorman]

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Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
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| Hmm.  If we were to invent new flags, I currently like
|   -force-static, -prefer-shared
| best.
|
|
|>>Note though that Ralf has -Bstatic defined as:
|>>If @var{output-file} is a program, prefer linking statically
|>>                                    ^^^^^^
|>>
|>>This is not -Bstatic under Linux according to ld(1). If this is what
|>>is intended, then -prefer-static is back :)
|
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| This is precisely and only because I wasn't sure whether we would find a
| linker which allows to set the preferred more but not force it to.
|

The odcctools <http://www.opendarwin.org/projects/odcctools> linker has a
- -Bstatic/-Bdynamic flag that sets preferred, but does not force it. However,
since this linker is probably only used by people cross-compiling a darwin
targetted gcc, it can probably be ignored :)

Peter
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