Re: Passing flags with mode=link

[Peter Rosin]

On 2014-04-17 21:38, Evgeny Grin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I spend a few hours before I realized that libtool did not pass to linker 
> flags other than -L -l -Wl, and -Xlinker. It's totally confusing as in 
> compile mode libtool pass all flags to compiler.
> Currently there are no way to pass flags like -static-libgcc to linker except 
> editing makefile/configure.
> Common way of setting required flags by setting LDFLAGS before configure 
> didn't work because simple flag "-static-libgcc" will be ignored by libtool 
> and flag "-XCClinker -static-libgcc" will cause configure fail on GCC tests.
> Moreover, currently many configure tests can be incorrect as configure test 
> pure GCC/linker with LDFLAGS (and some flags can modify GCC/linker results) 
> but during "make" stage libtool filter many linker flags and linker works not 
> as configure expect.
> I suggest to pass all flags to linker, as in compile mode.

This is an FAQ:

http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/manual/libtool.html#FAQ

Cheers,
Peter