PATCH: Ignore --disable-static in libiberty

Andrew Pinski pinskia@physics.uc.edu
Mon Dec 20 18:41:00 GMT 2004


On Dec 20, 2004, at 1:39 PM, H. J. Lu wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 03:28:39PM -0200, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>> On Dec 19, 2004, "H. J. Lu" <hjl@lucon.org> wrote:
>>
>>> +# FIXME: libiberty doesn't support --disable-static
>>> +enable_static=yes
>>
>> You shouldn't need this in general.  AM_DISABLE_SHARED should take
>> care of implicitly enabling static, unless --disable-static is
>> actually given in the command line.  If libiberty absolutely needs the
>> static libiberty.a, then I can see why you'd want this (but I'd at
>> least print a warning); otherwise, I'd just leave it alone, and if
>> someone configures with --disable-static, they get what they asked
>> for.
>>
>
> Apparently, they do
>
> http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19072
>
> and expect --disable-static to work.

Well it is more than just that, AIX was also broken even without
--disable-static ...

-- Pinski



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