>> Indeed. However, how is that related to my request of having a
>> separate set of linker flags for *static* linking?
>
> Before libtool could adequately address such a feature, it would
> need to be supported by autoconf and configure scripts based on
> autoconf. If there are two sets of LDF
On Tue, 4 Mar 2014, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
Indeed. However, how is that related to my request of having a
separate set of linker flags for *static* linking?
Before libtool could adequately address such a feature, it would need
to be supported by autoconf and configure scripts based on autocon
> Depending entirely on pkg-config is not wise since it is an add-on
> which is not part of the autotools framework and not uniformly
> maintained.
It is unrealistic to expect that all libraries needed by a package are
manually compiled by the user so that all `.la' files are present.
Additionall
On Mon, 3 Mar 2014, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
it seems it has been already discussed that libtool should use a
different set of link flags if compiling a static library, especially
for libraries that come without a corresponding `.la' file, cf. this
thread:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automa
