Hi Paulo, * Paulo J. Matos wrote on Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 01:15:47PM CEST: > ATT: Cross-sent to automake and autoconf MLs since problem spans both > worlds, I think! Do you use Libtool? Then it would probably a Libtool question. But anyway. > I'm currently using autoconf for the for my libraries with > AC_CHECK_LIB, and to generate static binaries I do everytime I > configure: > ./configure LDFLAGS="-static" OK. Why do you want static linking? > However, in google groups: > http://groups.google.com/group/gnu.g++.help/browse_frm/thread/2144e5bd146e9cfe > Paul Pluzhnikov told that it was not the best way to do this. Instead > of using -static I should do: > -Wl,-Bstatic -llog4cpp -lglpk -Wl,-Bdynamic > (because I was using log4cpp and glpk at the time) Is he the author of those libraries, or may otherwise happen to know that those libraries can't keep their interface clean? Ah, I guess rather than special-casing those two libraries, you would like to link all non-Glibc (and maybe non-GCC) libraries statically, right? (The rest of my mail assumes this somewhat.) > So in general I should do: > -Wl,-Bstatic <LIBS> -Wl,-Bdynamic Hmm. I did a small survey about this a little while ago, as a first step to implement per-deplib static/shared switches in Libtool[1]. Above settings are fairly portable, but there are important exceptions. > My question is, Is there a way to configure this efficiently in > autotools, so that whenever I add a check for a LIB it is also added > to that line for static linking? Hmm. Libtool-1.5.24 will have -static-libtool-libs, which will allow you this functionality portably, but only for libraries created with libtool. Eventually, the per-deplib flags feature[2] will appear in mainline libtool in some way or other, which will allow this for all kinds of libraries. Cheers, Ralf [1] http://wiki.azazil.net/GnuLibtoolProject/FeatureRequests/PerDeplibFlags [2] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libtool-patches/2006-01/msg00064.html _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
