Hi Ralf, On Monday 2009-02-16 19:56, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: >> >> is it somehow possible to specify that only a given set of libraries is >> supposed to be linked in statically into a program? Something along the >> lines of... >> >> bin_PROGRAMS = foo bar >> foo_LDADD = libabc.la -( -static libdef.la -) libghi.la >> bar_LDADD = libdef.la libghi.la > >With this patch, it would be possible, using -Bstatic and -Bdynamic: ><http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.libtool.patches/6727/focus=6730> > >Can you try out the patch, and report back?
It works, but does not yet deal with some cases. My first try was: p1_LDADD = -Bstatic libours.la -Bdynamic libtheirs.la automake then responded: Makefile.am:11: linker flags such as `-Bstatic' belong in `p1_LDFLAGS' I had naturally added -Bstatic to p1_LDADD because that is where all the libraries are. Moving it to p1_LDFLAGS means that I give up part of the dependency tracking — `make p1` will then not built libours.la beforehand. The other issue is that since -Bstatic is passed verbatim down to ld, I get an error: CCLD p1 /bin/sh ./libtool --tag=CC --mode=link gcc -Wall -g -O2 -Bstatic libours.la -Bdynamic libtheirs.la -o p1 p1.o libtool: link: gcc -Wall -g -O2 -o .libs/p1 p1.o -Wl,-Bstatic ./.libs/libours.a /usr/lib/libHX.so -ldl -Wl,-Bdynamic ./.libs/libtheirs.so /usr/lib/gcc/i586-suse-linux/4.3/../../../../i586-suse-linux/bin/ld: attempted static link of dynamic object `/usr/lib/libHX.so' The (simplified) Makefile goes like: libours_la_LIBADD = -lHX p1_LDFLAGS = -Bstatic libours.la -Bdynamic libtheirs.la [libHX is a library for which I do not have a static .a version installed.] What I had in mind though was not what libtool currently does (namely, passing -Bstatic/dynamic to the linker verbatim), but something more along the lines of the libtool "-static" flag, that is, the linker to be called with gcc -Wall -g -O2 -o .libs/p1 p1.o .libs/libours.a /usr/lib/libHX.so -ldl .libs/libtheirs.so thanks, Jan _______________________________________________ http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool
