Re: PATCH: Ignore --disable-static in libiberty

[Andrew Pinski <pinskia at physics dot uc dot edu>]

On Dec 20, 2004, at 1:39 PM, H. J. Lu wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 03:28:39PM -0200, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> > On Dec 19, 2004, "H. J. Lu" <hjl@lucon.org> wrote:
> >
> > > +# FIXME: libiberty doesn't support --disable-static
> > > +enable_static=yes
> >
> > You shouldn't need this in general.  AM_DISABLE_SHARED should take
> > care of implicitly enabling static, unless --disable-static is
> > actually given in the command line.  If libiberty absolutely needs the
> > static libiberty.a, then I can see why you'd want this (but I'd at
> > least print a warning); otherwise, I'd just leave it alone, and if
> > someone configures with --disable-static, they get what they asked
> > for.
>
> Apparently, they do
>
> http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19072
>
> and expect --disable-static to work.

Well it is more than just that, AIX was also broken even without
--disable-static ...

-- Pinski