[Libosinfo] [PATCH] Disable static libraries by default

Eric Blake eblake at redhat.com
Tue Apr 2 17:23:33 UTC 2013


On 04/02/2013 10:46 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> From: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange at redhat.com>
> 
> Every source file is currently built twice by libtool, once for
> the shared library and once for the static library. Static libs
> are not commonly packaged by distros and slow down compilation
> time by almost 100% compared to a shared-only build time.
> 
> Time for non-parallel make
> 
>       shared only: 22 secs
>   shared + static: 40 secs
> 
> Those few people who really want them, can pass --enable-static
> to configure
> 
> Disabling them by default requires use of LT_INIT. We don't need
> to support older libtool, so drop use of AM_PROG_LIBTOOL entirely
> ---
>  configure.ac | 3 +--
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
> ---
>  configure.ac | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Odd double-diffstat.  But looks like you are on a roll, doing the same
cleanup throughout the virt stack :)

> +++ b/configure.ac
> @@ -5,10 +5,11 @@ AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([1.11.1 foreign color-tests tar-ustar])
>  AC_PREREQ([2.61])
>  AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([osinfo/osinfo_db.c])
>  AC_CONFIG_HEADERS([config.h])
> -AC_PROG_LIBTOOL
>  AC_PROG_CC
>  AC_PROG_LN_S
>  
> +LT_INIT([shared disable-static win32-dll])

Where did win32-dll come from for this particular configure.ac?  We
weren't previously using AC_LIBTOOL_WIN32_DLL.

ACK if you drop the unneeded option.

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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