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From: Jonathan Wakely <jwakely.gcc@gmail.com>
To: Christian Tramnitz <christian+gcc-gnu@tramnitz.com>
Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: ld: document static libraries when performing static linking
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2024 17:48:49 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAH6eHdR2KnnTaZbY4SrKnRKE2n4qOgj_uo+srMR_nmn_JVQPgA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADddEsCm7OpQ51GE+hfix2OntdnGmcWTppK8-g_2O175qS5VjA@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, 21 Feb 2024 at 17:29, Christian Tramnitz via Gcc
<gcc@gcc.gnu.org> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> For statically linked binaries one wants to keep track of external
> libraries that were pulled in at link time. I haven't found any
> initiatives or standards trying to achieve this yet, so I would like
> to make a proposal.
>
> ld already supports the `--depedency-file=` option to create a
> depfile, to some degree, documenting dependencies in Makefile format.
> While it's a good starting point, it's not sufficient.

The linker is part of Binutils not GCC:
https://www.gnu.org/software/binutils/

You probably want to use the binutils mailing list, not the GCC one.

      reply	other threads:[~2024-02-21 17:49 UTC|newest]

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2024-02-21 17:28 Christian Tramnitz
2024-02-21 17:48 ` Jonathan Wakely [this message]

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