RFC: Static linking option.

[Bryce McKinlay]

David Daney wrote:
> I have been thinking about adding an option to gcj to cause it to link 
> against a static libgcj.  Probably something like '-static-libgcj' and
> '-shared-libgcj' similar to the libgcc options of similar names.
>
> There are two ways to do it that I have thought of:
>
> 1) Wrap -lgcj with -non_shared and -call_shared when generating the 
> linker command line.  No library rename necessary, but may only work 
> with GNU binutils.
>
> 2) Rename libgcj.a to libgcj_static.a.  Then pass -lgcj_static to the 
> linker.  Probably more portable, but requires changing the build 
> process to generate the static library with a different name.

I think this is a good idea - "-static-libgcj" would be marginally more 
sane than using "-static". Either approach sounds reasonable to me. It 
is just a question of what is easier/cleaner to implement.

Bryce