Re: [Bug-readline] making shared link failures fatal

[Chet Ramey]

On 3/25/11 2:55 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:

>> The question is whether or not a failure to build the shared version of
>> readline should cause the build to fail, even if the static library is
>> created successfully.
> 
> i cant see how ignoring the shared link is sane anymore.  what
> reasonable OS doesnt use shared libraries anymore ?

That doesn't have anything to do with it.  If I've made a mistake in
shobj-conf or shlib-install, should that kill the build?  It's ok if
your answer is "yes," and I'm open to the discussion.  I was starting
to come around to your position, as a matter of fact.

> how unreasonable is it really to have the 1 or 2 random people running
> on old pos hardware to pass --disable-shared at configure time ?
> 
> or even better, why not just convert to libtool already ?  every other
> major project out there has long ago switched to libtool.  that would
> detect whether the target supports shared libraries at configure time
> and disable it by default.

I'd advise you to take a look at it before shooting from the hip next
time.  The readline build system has always detected supported and
unsupported systems at configure time.  It's reasonable to have a
discussion about this, but don't pull bogus arguments out of your ass
to do it.

Chet
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