Re: AC_DISABLE_STATIC

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi Akim, Bob, others,

* Akim Demaille wrote on Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 04:52:15PM CEST:
> >>> "Bob" == Bob Friesenhahn <address@hidden> writes:
>  > On Fri, 10 Jun 2005, Akim Demaille wrote:
>  >> >> 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.
*snip*
> 
> 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?

branch-2-0 would be affected as well, I believe.
Anybody tried branch-1-5 (from a glimpse at the source it seems
unaffected)?

Thanks,
Ralf