Re: AC_DISABLE_STATIC

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi Akim,

This is an old bug report:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-libtool/2005-06/msg00116.html

* Akim Demaille wrote on Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 09:39:56AM CEST:
> >>> "Ralf" == Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>  >> The solution is simple:  AC_DISABLE_STATIC is just
>  >> 
>  >> : ${enable_static=no}
>  >> 
>  >> and similarly for SHARED.
> 
>  > (El cheapo comment without actually trying to reproduce it myself:)
>  > Does it solve the problem Bob described?
> 
> Well, I do have both --disable/enable-shared/static.  But this fix is
> not the best possible, since --help does not report the actual
> default.  The best fix should have its AC_ARG_ENABLE calls depend on
> AC_DISABLE_STATIC/SHARED.

I just applied a patch which, in conjunction with another small pending
patch, should fix this issue for good.  It would be good to check that
this really is fixed for your case (the next alpha release would be a
good moment to do this).

Thanks for reporting this bug!

Cheers,
Ralf