On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 12:47:51AM -0600, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Tue, 31 Jan 2006, Albert Chin wrote: > > >On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 10:28:52PM +0100, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > >>- Should the corresponding libtool flags be named `-Bstatic' resp. > >> `-Bdynamic'? Those were the most common names I could find, but IMHO > >> they are not very self-explanatory for users not used to them. > > > >-prefer-static, -prefer-dynamic/-prefer-shared? The -Bxxx doesn't seem > >similar with current libtool options. > > At least for the static case, I would prefer the link to entirely fail > if a static library is requested but one can not be found. Usually > there is a very important reason to use a static library if it has > specifically been requested. So the wording should not be 'prefer' > for the static case. I agree that the -B syntax does not fit the > style of other libtool options (but does match many linkers).
Fine. -Bstatic on Linux means "Do not link against shared libraries." anyway. -- albert chin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) _______________________________________________ http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool
