static linking

Wed Dec 6 10:08:00 GMT 2000

On Dec 6, 2000, Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com> wrote:
Alexandre> That's because libtool only extracts convenience libraries,
Alexandre> which -lsupc++ isn't; -lsupc++convenience is, but it's not
Alexandre> (and shouldn't be) installed.
> But we could solve this in the unified tree by linking against that,
> right?

As long as libgcj starts requiring the unified tree, yes.
> Or should we just add -lsupc++ to libgcj.spec?

That would be better, but libtool might start complaining about it on
platforms in which a static library can't always be linked into a
shared library. This would only affect the creation of shared
libraries with libtool, of course. So it seems like a reasonable
trade off.
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