On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 04:57:48PM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote: > The savings of creating static libraries would be small if we > refrained from building non-PIC object files.
But still largely useless. Who in their right mind is going to use an 83MB static library when a shared library is available. > This is exactly what > --tag disable-static for compilations accomplishes, and we had a patch > to use that in our tree for some time, but RTH ran into a (probably > libtool) bug on alpha that led him to revert the change, and then > didn't provide enough info for anyone else without access to an alpha > box to figure out what the problem was and then try to fix it :-( I don't recall the failure mode anymore, nor do I have the patch. If you feel like working on --tag disable-static, don't let me stop you. I'll whine if it breaks again, but not before. r~
