Henning Meier-Geinitz <henn...@meier-geinitz.de> writes: > 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?
Since libtool effectively compiles the sources twice to build one set of non-PIC objects and one set of PIC objects, I'd have expected the overhead to be even larger. Nevertheless, I think it's a good idea to only build shared libraries by default; typically static libraries aren't used anyway if shared libraries are available. -- Michael Piotrowski, M.A. <m...@dynalabs.de>
