building static libgcj

Wed Jul 16 15:24:00 GMT 2003

Jeff Sturm wrote:
>>The other binaries like gcc, gcj, gcjh etc... are statically linked.
>>> To be pedantic for a moment, a 'static binary' does not link to any DSO,
> not system libraries such as libc.so or any other. GCC does not produce
> these even if configured with --disable-shared. However that option
> suppresses any shared libraries that GCC would build on its own
> (libgcj.so, libgcc_s.so, libstdc++.so).

Simply put, "--disable-shared" does not mean that the GCC
*executables* that are produced will be statically linked - it
merely means that the *libraries* built by GCC (libgcc, libgcj,
etc.) will be static libraries instead of dynamic libraries.
Ranjit.
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