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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://people.freedesktop.org/~mak/limba.


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


       Copyright © 2010-2014 Matthias Klumpp