[sane-devel] Disable static libraries by default?

[Oliver Rauch]

Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm currently looking into updating libtool in the SANE distribution.
> 
> While testing other things I wondered if it makes sense to disbale
> static libraries by default (AC_DISABLE_STATIC). They can be enabled
> manually by ./configure --enable-static . If shared libraries are nor
> possible on a platform, static is enabled by default.
> 
> The reason is simple: time. See a comparison (latest CVS, in seconds):
> 
>                      both       shared only
> time make:          188.7       124.4
> time make install:   10.5         7.9
> 
> Comments?

Sounds ok, but the static libraries should be enabled when shared
libraries do not work.

Bye
Oliver

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