[maemo-developers] Toolchain upgrade? (Was: Instructions cache flush on ARM)

[From: Frantisek Dufka]

Siarhei Siamashka wrote:

> I'm not going to statically link with glibc, but only with libstdc++ (standard
> c++ library). There are a few known tricks to make gcc link with libstdc++
> statically, but dynamically with all the rest of libraries. One of them is
> creating a symlink to libstdc++.a in some empty directory and specify this
> directory with -L option in gcc command line. When gcc will start linking,
> it will be fooled to link with a static libstdc++ library. But I guess just
> killing libstdc++.so in scratchbox will do the the job. After that, the
> compiler theoretically should create binaries which should run with no
> problems on the device even for c++ applications.

I used this trick for scummvm for IT2005. It works as long as your 
program does not load dynamically (directly or indirectly) some other 
c++ code compiled with stdc++ too e.g. when using some plugins in your 
application or other libraries written in C++.