On 29/04/06, Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@xxxxxx> wrote:
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.
No, as far as I know, libtool is for me to create my own libraries and link them with my program. I cannot use libtool to link others libraries, mainly if I do not know how they were created, right?
> 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?
Yes, it's wierd I know! This binary is for a competition. It'll have to run on system without the libraries I use installed out of the box, except of course, gcc and glib which are standard in Linux systems.
> 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?
Don't really know about that... :) Seems it just knows more than I do on these matters!
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.)
Right!
> 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.
Still, I don't understand how to use them with automake and autoconf! I don't think I can use libtool since these are not my libraries and furthermore, I do not have the slightest idea on how they were created.
> 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
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