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Re: Request for option to disable building of static library
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Nick Hudson |
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Re: Request for option to disable building of static library |
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Tue, 22 Jul 2003 15:17:06 +0100 |
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On Tuesday 22 July 2003 2:02 pm, Peter O'Gorman wrote:
>
> On Tuesday, July 22, 2003, at 09:37 PM, Sander Niemeijer wrote:
> >
> >
> > In our situation it is not possible to just disable building of static
> > libraries on a global level for our package, since our package
> > provides multiple libraries and some of them need to be provided in
> > both static and shared versions.
> > A few other libraries, however, are plug-ins (modules created with the
> > '-module' flag) that only need to be delivered as shared libraries.
> > For these specific libraries I would like to have an option (e.g.
> > -no-static) to tell libtool to omit building the static version.
>
> Firstly, in case you were wondering why libtool builds static libraries
> even for loadable modules, libtool via. ltdl supports loading modules
> on systems without dynamic loading capabilities using the
> -dlopen/-dlpreopen flags.
Does anyone actaully use this feature these days?
Just curious.
Nick