RFC: An option to link against static gcc libraries

[Andrew Pinski]

On Dec 30, 2005, at 1:53 PM, H. J. Lu wrote:

> Gcc build executable linking against dynamic libraries by default.
> "-static" will link against all static libraries. For run-time
> portability, we may want to link against static gcc libraries, like
> libstdc++.a, libgfortran.a, libgcj.a, ...., but against dynamic system
> libraries, when we building executables. Currently, there is no easy
> way to do it. We have -static-libgcc for libgcc.a. It will be nice to
> have -static-gcclibs or something like that, to link against static
> gcc libraries.

One, this will not work at all libobjc or libgcj since they
require lookups at runtime.


-- Pinski