* README: Document use of LDFLAGS="--static".
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2009-07-14 Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>
PR 10380
* README: Document use of LDFLAGS="--static".
2009-07-10 H.J. Lu <hongjiu.lu@intel.com>
* Makefile.am: Run "make dep-am".

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target unless the --enable-64-bit-bfd option is also used:
./configure --enable-64-bit-bfd --enable-targets=all
You can also specify the --enable-shared option when you run
configure. This will build the BFD and opcodes libraries as shared
libraries. You can use arguments with the --enable-shared option to
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LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so that the system can find the installed libbfd
shared library.
On hosts that support shared system libraries the binutils will be
linked against them. If you have static versions of the system
libraries installed as well and you wish to create static binaries
instead then use the LDFLAGS environment variable, like this:
../binutils-XXX/configure LDFLAGS="--static" [more options]
Note: the two dashes are important. The binutils make use of the
libtool script which has a special interpretation of "-static" when it
is in the LDFLAGS environment variable.
To build under openVMS/AXP, see the file makefile.vms in the top level
directory.