Static runtime linking of gcc

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-08-23 07:41:02

Hello,

for quite some time, the <link-runtime>static option was broken on gcc. Some 
investigation revelated that this options is not completely separate from 
<link>static. If an application uses DLLs in some way, it should link to the 
shared runtime (specifically, libc).

There's a email discussion between me and a libc maintainer that I base this 
view on:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=227906

Based on that, I've modified gcc.jam so that it issues a reasonable error 
message if the user tries to use <link-runtime>static with DLLs. If 
everything's OK, the '-static' option is added. As the result, it's now 
really possible to create all-static binaries on gcc with V2.

I've also removed the code which tries to distinguish between static and 
shared searched library. I don't think that code was very robust or even 
used.

As usual, if my changes break something (which is not very likely, since the 
property in question never worked), let me know.

- Volodya