> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of > Samuel Meder
> On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, Robert Boehne wrote: > > > Under AIX, both shared and static libraries are > > named lib*.a, so by default we don't build static > > libraries, i.e. you get one or the other. When the > > library is shared, the archvie file contains one > > member, the shared library. This is how shared > > libraries are typically done under AIX, if you're having > > some problem with it, it isn't becuase it "just doesn't work". > > I'm aware of the above, let me restate my email in a more verbose way. > > The problem I was running into occured when I tried to use libtool > with the -static flag (which if I understand things correctly should > create static libs). This would cause empty libraries to be created > (all the object files got created correctly, but when libtool was > called in link mode something like 'ar cru libfoo.a' would happen (ie > no object files were specified on the ar line). > To make static building work I had to supply the --disable-shared > option at configure time. My main complaint/suggestion concerning > the above was that I'd be nice if libtool either worked or returned a > reasonable error when the -static option is specified, but libtool > isn't configured to generate static libs by default (ie I don't like > the behavior where it looks like it's working, but in fact only > creates empty libraries). > > Hope that explains it better Something else to keep in mind; on AIX there is no reason to build static libraries since the linker can perform static links using shared objects as input. So for this case, "-static" should be a silent no-op and libtool should just continue to build a shared library. (Moreover, the AIX linker executes a lot faster with shared objects as input, and yes, it's smart enough to extract just the pieces it needs, it won't pull in the entire object file on a static link.) -- Howard Chu Chief Architect, Symas Corp. Director, Highland Sun http://www.symas.com http://highlandsun.com/hyc Symas: Premier OpenSource Development and Support _______________________________________________ Libtool mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool
