Hi Ian, thanks for the reply.
I didn't get an answer to my previous long post about the
problem I am having, so I figured I would try asking
more direct questions:
What, in GCC, makes the determination to link in -lgcc?
-lgcc is always linked in.
I assume you are asking: what decides whether to link it statically or
dynamically? That is controlled by the -static-libgcc and
-shared-libgcc options, q.v.
I forgot to mention this below -- I also tried LDFLAGS="-static-libgcc"
and watched it be referenced/used during my build. It did nothing.
The resulting build had libgcc_s.so linked.
The g++ driver program always adds -shared-libgcc. So if you link
with g++, you will normally get a shared libgcc (unless you use the
-static-libgcc option, of course).
Why am I unable to get around shared linking of -lgcc?
I have tried both of the following and neither works
if I have a libgcc_s.so
a) In 'specs', specify "-Bstatic -lgcc -Bdynamic" for
the 'libgcc:' directive.
b) In 'specs', specify "/my/static/libgcc.a" for the
'libgcc:' directive.
That is odd. It sounds like your specs file is not being read. I'm
not sure why not.
Well, it finds it and opens it:
subversion-1.2.0:cairo> truss gcc 2>&1 | grep specs
access("/afs/rcf/lang/gcc/@sys/3.3.5/bin/../lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.9/3.3.5/specs",
4) = 0
open("/afs/rcf/lang/gcc/@sys/3.3.5/bin/../lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.9/3.3.5/specs",
O_RDONLY) = 3
stat("/afs/rcf/lang/gcc/@sys/3.3.5/bin/../lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.9/3.3.5/specs",
0xFFBFF3C8) = 0
access("/afs/rcf/lang/gcc/sun4x_59/3.3.5/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.9/specs",
4) Err#2 ENOENT
