[sane-devel] Disable static libraries by default?

[Henning Meier-Geinitz]

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?

Bye,
  Henning