Re: AC_DISABLE_STATIC

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Mon, 6 Jun 2005, Akim Demaille wrote:

> (Hm, I'm quite sure I sent this message before, but it didn't come
> out!)
>
> AFAICS, from the source and its effect on configure, AC_DISABLE_STATIC
> *permanently* disables the possibility to create static library.  The
> documentation says it changes the *default* value for --disable-static.

Apparently this leads to some problems.  For example, if the user 
selects --enable-shared --disable-static and something is unable to 
build as shared, then the build simply fails.  I learned this the hard 
way under Cygwin and MinGW.

Bob
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