On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 4:17 PM, Mike Stump <m...@mrs.kithrup.com> wrote: > On Jan 28, 2013, at 7:07 AM, David Edelsohn <dje....@gmail.com> wrote: >> Over the weekend, I successfully tested a different way to configure >> and build: all static libraries. > > Yeah, I think our build instructions for the dependent libraries should say > to build them statically.
A number of GCC developers who already do this. I previously had problem on AIX with an earlier release of GCC that was built with Graphite because one of the dependent libraries used C++, but GCC was not linked with libstdc++ at the time. The only way to break the C++ dependency of the library separate from GCC was through shared libraries. If one can link GCC against static libraries, it definitely simplifies things and avoids potential conflicts with multiple versions of GCC installed. - David
