Howdy all! I am using autoconf/automake/libtool to build a freeware library for earth scientists. There are many existing users, and the upcoming release is the first to include libtool and shared library support. Until now, it's been static all the way.
Generally I like to go with the "usual" way of doing thing with the auto-tools, and the usual way seems to be to build shared libraries by default, unless the user does --disable-shared. However, this will cause everyone's existing makefiles to break. They must either adjust the makefiles to handle shared libraries, or provide whatever special options are needed to keep using static libraries. I am wondering if I should make --disable-shared the default, and only build shared libraries for users who specifically enable them. Is there some important benefit to building shared libraries by default which I am missing? How have other libraries which have switched to libtool handled this transition? Thanks, Ed -- Ed Hartnett -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool
