Re: Need a way to pass options to libtool

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Sat, 29 May 2004, Alexandre Oliva wrote:

> On May 26, 2004, Albert Chin <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > On Sun, May 23, 2004 at 03:20:35PM -0500, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
>
> > > Notice that there is no means provided to add libtool specific
> > > options.
>
> > Why not:
> >   AM_CXXFLAGS += [your additions]
>
> Because that's also passed to non-libtool compilations?
>
> I've often wanted some means to pass additional flags to libtool
> compile and/or link commands without affecting non-libtool
> compile and/or link.  My favorite example is -static, that has
> a somewhat different meaning when it comes to libtool.

And -static was exactly the option that I was seeking to pass. :-)

Luckily, my Makefile.am doesn't include any non-libtool compilations.

Bob
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