Re: Separate CPPFLAGS for static and shared libs

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Vikram Ambrose wrote on Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 03:59:38PM CEST:
> Thanks all. However modifying the code is not a possibility. I do  
> understand that the code is not designed properly. I am looking for a  
> way to configure the build tools to build the code properly instead of  
> configuring the code to get the build tools to build it properly.

If you are using GCC:

cat > my-fixup-header.h <<\EOF
/* This file maps the PIC define given by libtool
   to STATIC/SHARED needed by my legacy code */
#ifdef PIC
# define SHARED
#else
# define STATIC
#endif
EOF
./configure CPPFLAGS="-include `pwd`/my-fixup-header.h"

Hope that helps.

Cheers,
Ralf