On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, Howard Chu wrote: > > -----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.)
The problem with that is that the linker by default will link the object as a shared object. I don't really want to have to know that I have to specify something like -bnso to be able to link some supposedly static library as a static library. /Sam _______________________________________________ Libtool mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool
