Re: Libtool drops -static from LDFLAGS?

[Ossama Othman]

Hi Alexandre,

On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 03:55:36PM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> On May  8, 2001, Ossama Othman <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > Right, but the problem is that is it prevents users who "know what
> > they're doing" from using gcc's "-static" option.
> 
> Nope.  -all-static does that.  It's in the libtool manual.  If they
> ``know what they're doing'', they should know that :-D

I understand that, but why should a user who downloads a libtoolized
package have to read the libtool manual, especially since passing in
gcc's "-static" flag via $LDFLAGS is not an uncommon thing to do.
That behavior is now changed due to libtool's own "-static" flag
conflicting with gcc's "-static" flag.

-Ossama
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Ossama Othman <address@hidden>
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