[CMake] Unknown origin of compiler flag on Cray

[Alexander Neundorf]

On Thursday 27 August 2009, Will Dicharry wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I am experiencing a strange problem on Cray XT machines running CNL
> compute nodes with the PGI compiler.
>
> It appears that something is adding the flags "-Bstatic -Bdynamic" (in
> that order) to the link line.  It looks like the Linux.cmake platform
> module sets the the variable CMAKE_${type}_DYNAMIC_C_FLAGS to -Bdynamic.
>    But that's the only reference to the flags that I can find anywhere
> in the project.

Linux.cmake also adds the Bstatic (at least with CVS head).
I didn't try, can you just change these variables ?

> The cache does not contain the flags, my list files do not contain the
> flags, and as far as I can tell, none of the modules I am using add the
> flags (the only modules I call are a custom exodus find module, a custom
> netcdf find module, and the HDF5 find module I submitted earlier this
> week).  Also, all of the libraries built by my projects and the
> libraries found by cmake with find_package are static.
>
> The flags are causing problems because we use the Cray provided wrapper
> compilers, which add a few additional libraries to the link line, and

I think you don't have to use these compiler wrappers, it should work if you 
use the plain compiler (worked for me).

Alex