Re: Request for option to disable building of static library

[Nick Hudson]

On Tuesday 22 July 2003 2:02 pm, Peter O'Gorman wrote:
> 
> On Tuesday, July 22, 2003, at 09:37  PM, Sander Niemeijer wrote:
> >
> >
> > In our situation it is not possible to just disable building of static 
> > libraries on a global level for our package, since our package 
> > provides multiple libraries and some of them need to be provided in 
> > both static and shared versions.
> > A few other libraries, however, are plug-ins (modules created with the 
> > '-module' flag) that only need to be delivered as shared libraries. 
> > For these specific libraries I would like to have an option (e.g. 
> > -no-static) to tell libtool to omit building the static version.
> 
> Firstly, in case you were wondering why libtool builds static libraries 
> even for loadable modules, libtool via. ltdl supports loading modules 
> on systems without dynamic loading capabilities using the 
> -dlopen/-dlpreopen flags.

Does anyone actaully use this feature these days?

Just curious.

Nick