Option -static

[Ian Lance Taylor]

Takis Psarogiannakopoulos <takis@XFree86.Org> writes:

> Suppose someone pass -static flag on gold asking it basically to look
> for and preferred static libraries over shared ones.
> Now assume that some system libraries are no available in static form only
> as shared ones. At the moment gold will just stop with a fatal error
> during the linking. That as the default behaviour.
>
> I think what the gold linker should do instead is look and link a static
> library, if available and can be found, otherwise still pick the dynamic
> object and preferably print a warning!
> Correct me if I am wrong but this was the GNU linker's default behaviour
> and I think in any case that gold should behave similarly.

As far as I can tell that is not how GNU ld works.  When -static is in
effect, GNU ld will only find libNAME.a, not libNAME.so.  Can you show
me an example which shows the behaviour you describe?

Ian