Re: building dynamically loaded modules

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello Thomas,

* Thomas Koeller wrote on Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 11:27:40AM CEST:
> 
> when building a shared object to serve as a loadable module that is
> dlopen'ed by some program, there is little reason to build a static
> version even if --enable-static has been given to configure.

Not if your program supports dlpreopening:
<http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/manual.html#Dlpreopening>

> Only a shared object should be built in this case, regardless of
> enable_shared and enable_static. Is there a supported way to achieve
> this?

Well, you can just not build the module in this case.  If you're using
Automake, you can use a conditional
<http://sources.redhat.com/automake/automake.html#Conditionals>
based on $enable_shared and just not build the module if it is not
"yes".

Hope that helps.

Cheers,
Ralf