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From: Christopher Friedt <chrisfriedt@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 3 May 2016 09:50:15 -0400
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2v2] [RESENT-INLINE] Use libtool instead
 of ar to create static libraries on Darwin.
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To: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
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On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 3:06 AM, Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> wrote:
> On 05/02/2016 03:10 PM, Christopher Friedt wrote:
>>
>>  %.a:
>> +ifdef CONFIG_DARWIN
>> +       $(call quiet-command,rm -f $@ && libtool -static -o $@ $^,"
>> libtool    $(TARGET_DIR)$@")
>> +else
>>         $(call quiet-command,rm -f $@ && $(AR) rcs $@ $^,"  AR
>> $(TARGET_DIR)$@")
>> +endif
>>
>
> Does it work to use libtool -static everywhere?

That *would* be nice... yeah, it would be nice if Apple's tools could
work the same as *all* of the other unices out there. Unfortunately,
that's not the case, since at least GNU libtool does *not* accept the
"-static" argument.

To be honest, if it weren't for the man page for libtool on Mac OS X
[1] dating all the way back to Snow Leopard saying that libtool is the
preferred tool on Mac for creating static archives, I'm left wondering
if this is just a massive oversight / bug in Apple's ld64.

[1] http://www.unix.com/man-page/osx/1/libtool/