RFC: Static linking option.

Thu Mar 2 20:08:00 GMT 2006

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.
Thoughts?
David Daney.