[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #59373] [MXE] for dependencies that use cmake, don't build static libraries

[John W. Eaton]

Follow-up Comment #13, bug #59373 (project octave):

I'm also a bit confused now about what is happening.

Previously, I thought we could just specify the BUILD_SHARED/BUILD_STATIC
options in the cmake toolchain file, so if we need to use the -D options on
the command line, I guess the options in the toolchain file are ignored now? 
I also thought that if BUILD_STATIC was off, then we wouldn't be building
static libs.  Now we need to also use -DONLY_SHARED_LIBS=ON?

In any case, it would be good to have a consistent solution for all packages
that use cmake and to avoid creating and distributing static library files
that aren't needed.

I'm testing the attached change to see whether it avoids the policy warning
and does the right thing for creating shared but not static libraries.



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