> Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2008 10:40:10 +0100
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> CC: libtool@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: stop libtool from compiling everything twice
>
> * herman bastiaens wrote on Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 03:41:56PM CET:
> > >>>
> > >>> If you need both static and shared elsewhere, you can also try
> > >>> libconv_la_LIBTOOLFLAGS = --tag=disable-static
> > >>
> > >>I tried the --disable-static option (I believe for a static convenience
> > >>library, I should use the --disable-shared option?), but libtool doesn't
> > >>recognize it:
> > >> libtool: unrecognized option '--disable-static'
> > >>the command i tried is:
> > >> libtool --disable-static --mode=compile g++ -g -pipe -c file.cpp
> > >> libtool --mode=compile --disable-static g++ -g -pipe -c file.cpp
> > >> libtool --mode=compile g++ --disable-static -g -pipe -c file.cpp
> > >
> > >
> > >Try ./configure --disable-static
> >
> > It's just a makefile I'm writing myself, I don't have a configure
> > script, so I would like to know excactly what parameters to pass to
> > libtool to get this done.
>
> It would have been helpful if you had mentioned this right away.
> Anyway, in this case the thing to use is --tag=disable-static,
> as mentioned above, as argument to 'libtool' early in the command
> line, before the --mode argument. Ordering with respect to other
> tag arguments like --tag=CXX (which you should use BTW) is irrelevant.
>
> Please note that, if you are using an installed libtool script, you
> are to some extent at the mercy of how it was configured: if it was
> configured with --disable-shared, then you will only get static
> libraries out of it, no matter what options you pass. If it was
> configured to use a different compiler (in which case omitting --tag=CXX
> will be important for you to use), then linking will happen with that
> different compiler. Just FYI.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> Cheers,
> Ralf
I didn't realize it made a difference whether I was using a configure script,
anyways, the --tag=disable-shared did the trick, thanks a lot Ralf.
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