Re: [Boost-build] <toolset>gcc:<linkflags>--whole-archive

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-04-04 03:45:56

On Wednesday 02 April 2008 23:06:01 Tim St. Clair wrote:
> Folks -
> 
>     In creating a monolith.so, is there a way to tack the <linkflags> on the
> front vs. the end?   Every time I use this option it appends to the end.
> 
>     --whole-archive states :
>            For each archive mentioned on the command line *after* the
> --whole-archive option, include every object file in the archive in the
> link,  rather
>            than  searching  the archive for the required object files.  This
> is normally used to turn an archive file into a shared library, forcing
> every
>            object to be included in the resulting shared library.  This
> option may be used more than once.
> 
>            Two notes when using this option from gcc: First, gcc doesn't
> know about this option, so you have to  use  -Wl,-whole-archive.   Second,
> don't
>            forget  to  use  -Wl,-no-whole-archive  after your list of
> archives, because gcc will add its own list of archives to your link and you
> may not
>            want this flag to affect those as well.

No, there's no way to control where an option goes on the command line,
currently.

- Volodya