From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: hjl@nynexst.com (H.J. Lu)
To: leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com (Marty Leisner)
Cc: raeburn@cygnus.com (Ken Raeburn), gas2@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: binutils 2.5.2l.10 is released.
Date: Mon, 01 May 1995 13:29:00 -0000
Message-id: <9505012026.AA04105@titanic.nynexst.com>
References: <9505012011.AA14501@gnu.mc.xerox.com>
X-SW-Source: 1995/msg00081.html

> 
> > I don't remember that. I understand -static will turn off the lib*.so*
> > search.
> > 
> > -- 
> > H.J. Lu
> > NYNEX Science and Technology, Inc.			hjl@nynexst.com
> 
> 
> I never got around to implementing this behavior in gcc (I complained
> about it for years...)
> 
> On Sun, the linker allows you to do:
> 
> ld *.o -lfoo1 -Bstatic -lfoo2 -Bdynamic -lfoo3
> 
> (essentially specially which libraries to link statically).
> 
> In order to get the same behavior, you need to do:
> ld *.o -lfoo1 /usr/lib/libfoo.a -lfoo3
> with gcc/ld
> 

I will implement it if noone does and I have the time. First we
have to agree on what syntax to use. -Bstatic/-Bdynamic or
-static/-dynamic?


-- 
H.J. Lu
NYNEX Science and Technology, Inc.			hjl@nynexst.com