Re: Favoring static linking at configure time

[Peter O'Gorman]

Benoit Sigoure wrote:
> On Dec 4, 2007, at 7:24 PM, Peter O'Gorman wrote:
> 
>> Benoit Sigoure wrote:
>>
>>>> Of course there is: -Wl,-Bstatic -lfoo -Wl,-Bdynamic
>>
>> -Bstatic and -Bdynamic are not portable.
> 
> 
> The quoting is wrong, I didn't say this :)

Heh.

> 
> Anyways, are you aware of another more general/portable solution to
> detect static libraries?
> 

You can run libtool at configure time, in branch-1-5 it is created while
running configure, in HEAD you have to use LT_OUTPUT to generate a
configure time libtool to test with.

You could figure out what the extension for static archives is on the
host platform, and then use full paths to them. I am not sure how AIX
would behave here where the archive contains the shared object.

Not much help, sorry.

Peter
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