* Gary V. Vaughan wrote on Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 04:33:45PM CET: > Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > > On Tue, 2 Nov 2004, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: > > > > This seems like a particularly bad idea to me. What is the value of > > changing existing documented libtool behavior? > > Consistency, and user expectation. Looking through the archives I see the > repeated question of why -static still links shared libraries for libtool, > but not when linking with the compiler driver or system linker:
I think that if there were a way to specify options to `libtool --mode=link' on the configure line, then probably many people could settle with -all-static. Anyway you do it, users cannot at the moment use both possibilities, because one of them will not pass configure tests. /That/ is the main problem. Guess you could even map that to --enable-all-static or something like that (ugly, I know). Regards, Ralf _______________________________________________ Libtool mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool
