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Re: Option -static
"H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com> writes:
> On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 9:26 AM, Takis Psarogiannakopoulos
> <takis@xfree86.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Thu, 7 Jan 2010, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
>>
>>> You can use -Bstatic -la -lb -ld -Bdynamic -le
>>> to link liba.a, libb.b, libd.a and libe.so (or libe.a if libe.a doesn't
>>> exist).
>>
>> You are right, in my example, Âbut in general that means that you have
>> specific knowledge of which libs are static and which are in dynamic form
>> in the system.
>> I was thinking over a more wide approach where a certain lib doesnt not
>> exists on static form and of course you would still want the final linking to
>> take place right? In such a scenario if the ld decides by itself to use
>> what is available (prinitng a warning) violating the -static option seems
>> to me not that much wrong.
>>
>> Anyway if thats the case withthe Âout of the box gnu ld maybe gold hould
>> stick with it too.
>>
>
> You are looking for a new option, something like -prefer-static.
If anybody actually implements this, I think better would be something
like -Bprefer-static and -Bprefer-dynamic, and make them position
dependent like -Bstatic and -Bdynamic.
Ian