NAME

       ligcc - Wrapper around gcc to create more portable apps

SYNOPSIS

       ligcc [OPTION ...]

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents briefly the ligcc command.

       ligcc is a wrapper around gcc. It allows you to create more portable executables by doing
       three things:

       •   Forces the linker to link against older glibc symbols. Users who are using an older
           version of glibc will no longer get "undefined symbol GLIBC_2.4 in /lib/libc.so"-style
           error messages.

       •   Allows you to easily statically link to any other library.

       •   Automatically removes bogus dependencies. For example, your program uses libfoo.
           libfoo uses libpng internally, but your app does not. Yet the pkg-config file for
           libfoo specifies "-lfoo -lpng" is linker parameters. And tadaa - you now have a bogus
           dependency on libpng! LiGCC automatically removes the -lpng for you if your app
           doesn't use libpng directly.

       •   Add $ORIGIN/../lib to the binary's library search path. $ORIGIN is the directory in
           which the binary exists. This ensures that your binary can find library dependencies
           which are placed in the 'lib' folder under the same prefix. You might want to install
           custom libraries into /lib. If you set $APBUILD_PROJECTNAME, ligcc will also add
           $ORIGIN/../lib/$APBUILD_PROJECTNAME to the library search path.

OPTIONS

       See the manpage of gcc(1) for more information about possible options.

       There are also several environment variables available to modify ligcc's behavior check
       the documentation for more information.

SEE ALSO

       lig++ (1), gcc(1).

       Additional documentation can be found on http://listaller.tenstral.net.

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Matthias Klumpp <matthias@tenstral.net>.

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright © 2009-2012 Matthias Klumpp