Re: libtool 1.4 not passing linker directives

[Tim Van Holder]

On Fri, 2001-10-05 at 07:14, Ian Peters wrote:
> Unfortunately, with libtool 1.4.x, I get this instead (after a much,
> much longer time):
> 
> gcc -g -O2 -Wall -Wunused -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -o
> [snip]
> installer-ui.o -Wl,-Bstatic -rdynamic -rdynamic -rdynamic -rdynamic
> -Wl,-Bdynamic  ../libredcarpet/src/libredcarpet.a
> [snip]
> 
> Conspicuously missing are the linker directives to be passed to gcc,
> namely -Wl,-Bstatic and -Wl,-Bdynamic.  I do this to produce a binary
> that is linked statically except for libc and the dynamic linker.

Clearly, they're not missing, but they do seem to have been
overzealously grouped together at the start, with the change in results.

> Is this a bug in libtool 1.4.x, or an undocumented change in behaviour? 
> If so, is there some other way to accomplish the same goal?

I'd say a bug, since options libtool doesn't handle itself are moved
around when they shouldn't be.