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Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 03:29:36 +0200
From: magnum <rawsmooth@...dband.net>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Any flags needed to statically link openmp in Linux

On 2011-07-11 19:11, Robert B. Harris wrote:
> I'm working on compiling JtR omp versions for Linux.
> I am wondering if there are any LDFLAGS to statically link omp?

Some info here:
http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=39176#c7

Excerpt from that page:
> This has been repeated many times.  Don't use -static for threaded programs, it
> is really bad idea, and if you really have to, you need to link the whole
> libpthread.a in (-Wl,--whole-archive -lpthread -Wl,--no-whole-archive),
> otherwise if it works, it is by pure luck.

Some interesting reading here too:
http://www.akkadia.org/drepper/no_static_linking.html

Excerpt from that page:
> Conclusion: Never use static linking!

;-)

magnum

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