Re: RFC: An option to link against static gcc libraries

["H. J. Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>]

On Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 08:05:13PM +0100, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 10:58:16AM -0800, H. J. Lu wrote:
> > > One, this will not work at all libobjc or libgcj since they
> > > require lookups at runtime.
> > 
> > Are you saying "gcc -static" doesn't work with libobjc and libgcj?
> 
> It certainly doesn't work with libgcj (well, you can link in libgcj.a,
> but it will almost certainly never work right, for some programs
> --whole-archive helps a bit, but for most programs doesn't).
> That's why Fedora stopped including any Java .a libraries many
> months ago.
> 

Then, "gcc -static-gcclibs" will work the same as "gcc -static",
except for not linking against static system libraries. It is still
useful for C++ and FORTRAN.


H.J.