Re: stop libtool from compiling everything twice

[herman bastiaens]

>>> * Bernd Jendrissek wrote on Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 05:32:08PM CET:
>>> > On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 4:52 PM, herman bastiaens <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> > > is there a way to stop libtool from compiling everything twice? I am
>>> > > compiling a convenience library, so I add the -static and -prefer-non-pic
>>> > > flag, but it's still compiling my file twice. The command looks like
>>> > > this:
>>> >
>>> > I usually build everything with --disable-static; that seems to cause
>>> > libtool to compile files only once.  I don't know if this works for
>>> > convenience libraries specifically, or if they'd still get compiled
>>> > both ways.
>>>
>>> Should work for convenience archives just fine, and is a good idea if
>>> static linking is not needed.
>>>
>>> If you need both static and shared elsewhere, you can also try
>>>   libconv_la_LIBTOOLFLAGS = --tag=disable-static
>>>
>>
>>I tried the --disable-static option (I believe for a static convenience
>>library, I should use the --disable-shared option?), but libtool doesn't
>>recognize it:
>>  libtool: unrecognized option '--disable-static'
>>the command i tried is:
>>  libtool --disable-static --mode=compile g++ -g -pipe -c file.cpp
>>  libtool --mode=compile --disable-static g++ -g -pipe -c file.cpp
>>  libtool --mode=compile g++ --disable-static -g -pipe -c file.cpp
>
>
>Try ./configure --disable-static
>

It's just a makefile I'm writing myself, I don't have a configure script, so I would like to know excactly what parameters to pass to libtool to get this done.

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