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mkoctfile and --disable-shared
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John W. Eaton |
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mkoctfile and --disable-shared |
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Sat, 10 Dec 2011 13:03:39 -0500 |
On 10-Dec-2011, Ben Abbott wrote:
| Forgive my ignorance, but ...
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| A problem has been reported on the bug tracker.
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| https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?34997
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| The individual tried to install the specfun package from Octave built with
"--disable-shared". The pkg's makefile (via mkoctfile) created a shared version.
It worked to build a version of Octave with --disable-shared? Really?
What system? I don't think that's really worked on any modern system
lately.
On some systems it may be possible to do dynamic linking without
shared libraries, but I don't think that is true on modern GNU/Linux
systems. So with if you use --disable-shared, I think you've
effectively disabled dynamic linking and there is no way to use .oct
files in that case.
Why did the person who reported the problem think they wanted
--disable-shared?
Oh, I see they also used --disable-dl, so they *explicitly* disabled
dynamic linking (regardless of whether it requires shared libraries)
and now they are complaining that dynamic linking doesn't work?
jwe