[Buildroot] BR2_PREFER_STATIC_LIB and LDFLAGS+= -static
Arnout Vandecappelle
arnout at mind.be
Fri Nov 2 22:21:58 UTC 2012
On 11/02/12 18:06, ANDY KENNEDY wrote:
> All,
>
> Near line 302 in package/Makefile.in was added TARGET_LDFLAGS += -static
> to satisfy a request I made a while back. This really needs to be
> --static so that it filters down through autoconf the correct way. If
> -static is passed in LDFLAGS, autoconf regularly mishandles this by
> setting a variable then never reconfiguring the package's make system
> to build static. However, the --static to ld is the same as -static,
> but autoconf does not compare for --static, thus, packages get built as
> desired.
I don't really understand how it can go wrong... Can you give an example
of a package with a configure script that handles it the wrong way?
>
> Can someone change this in package/Makefile.in or should I submit a
> dinky patch for this?
Yes, please submit a patch.
Regards,
Arnout
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