Re: MSW DLLs support in libtool

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Thu, 11 Feb 2016, Evgeny Grin wrote:

> On 10.02.2016 18:51, Nick Bowler wrote:
> > The default (on all platforms) is to create both static libraries and,
> > when possible, shared libraries.
> This statement is ether not correct or incorrectly documented.
> Currently "configure --help" show those lib options by default:
>  --enable-shared[=PKGS]  build shared libraries [default=yes]
>  --enable-static[=PKGS]  build static libraries [default=yes]
>
> There is not "=auto" option for shared or static versions. Only "yes" or
> "no".
> So, it's explicitly specified whether static will be created and whether
> shared will be created. So "make" must ether create requested versions
> or fail.

These are 'enable' options.  Use of 'enable' implies "best effort".

Bob
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