[Bug target/17219] -static and -statig-libgcc aren't doing what they should.

["wilson at specifixinc dot com" <gcc-bugzilla at gcc dot gnu dot org>]

------- Additional Comments From wilson at specifixinc dot com  2004-09-02 21:26 -------
Subject: Re:  -static and -statig-libgcc aren't doing what
 they should.

gonnetp at inf dot ethz dot ch wrote:
> Looking forward to seeing thins fixed :)

It will probably only be fixed if you write a patch for it.

I'd like to repeat again that using static linking on Irix6 is not a 
good idea.

> The multiple versions I have here are 64 and 32 bit versions, so whatever 
> I link at compile time will be the right one. The problem is that I have 

You should also have mips3 and mip4 versions of the 32-bit libraries. 
If I remember right, there is no mips3 64-bit library.  The mips4 
libraries won't work on a mips3 machine.  The mips3 libraries should 
work on a mips4 machine.  If you have a mips4 machine, the mips3 
libraries might be optional ones that aren't installed on your machine. 
  But if you do a normal link, against the shared libraries, you don't 
have to worry about any of this stuff.  The right library will always 
loaded in regardless of which machine you compile on and which machine 
you run on.

> to deploy a stand-alone application on a bunch of irix boxes that don't 
> have a gcc > 3.0 installed...

The best solution for this problem is to use --disable-shared when 
configuring gcc.  You will then get only static libgcc and libstdc++ 
libraries.  You can then link normally, and get the static versions of 
gcc libraries and shared/dynamic versions of the system libraries, which 
is really what you want.

GCC defaults to -mips3, so these static libgcc and libstdc++ libraries 
should work everywhere.


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