Re: Request for option to disable building of static library

[Peter O'Gorman]

On Tuesday, July 22, 2003, at 11:32  PM, Nick Hudson wrote:
> OK, a better question is does anyone run an operating system that 
> needs this
> feature still?

I don't know the answer to this particular question, so I'll answer a 
different one :)

This feature, if used more widely, would have been great to getting 
stuff ported to darwin when it was first released, as there was no 
dlopen() library, and ltdl did not support darwin. For packages which 
used -dlopen -dlpreopen, it would have been possible to get them 
building and running simply by passing --enable-static --disable-shared 
to configure.

But, I never came across one at the time, and I was quite surprised 
that someone had an example of a package which used this feature :-)

Peter