Re: Forcing shared libaries

[Sander Niemeijer]

Ralph Schleicher already provided a patch to libtool for such a 
feature, but I don't know the current status of this patch (whether it 
will be in the next libtool release or not; anyone???).

Ralphs patch:
<http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/libtool/2003-08/msg00002.html>

A small summary explaining the rationale behind the patch:
<http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/libtool/2003-08/msg00008.html>

Regards,
Sander

On maandag, okt 6, 2003, at 20:04 Europe/Amsterdam, Patrick Riley wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I've got a project which I am in the process of converting to using
> autoconf, automake, and libtool. [1]
>
> The project builds several libraries and executables. For one of the
> libraries, I would like to force libtool to only create shared
> libraries, not static libraries no matter what the user gives to
> configure (for the use being made of the library, only a shared library
> makes sense). The other libraries should still obey the various
> enable/disable shared/static directives.
>
> Ideally, I would like to do this without having to do a recursive
> configure. If I do have to do a recursive configure, is it
> desirable/possible/how do I only have one copy of the libtool things in
> my distribution?
>
> Thank you.
>
> [1] The project is http://spades-sim.sf.net. Only the CVS version has
> GNU autotool stuff because, as I said, I'm in the midst of conversion. 
> I
> also don't think the code is very portable yet, so you might have
> problems if you actually try to compile it.
>
> --
> Patrick Riley
> Fifth Year Ph.D. Student
> Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University
> http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pfr
>
>
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