[sage-devel] Re: Static and shared libraries for Cygwin

2012-07-06 Thread Bill Hart
We need to change flint in two ways: 1) Instead of disabling shared library on flint, set it up so that either static or shared can be selected, but not both. It should make its selection based on whether a shared/static library of mpir is available if the user hasn't selected. 2) Don't pass -

[sage-devel] Re: Static and shared libraries for Cygwin

2012-07-04 Thread Jean-Pierre Flori
On Wednesday, July 4, 2012 3:40:28 PM UTC+2, Volker Braun wrote: > > I've been thinking about this yesterday for some other reasons, and I > think we should work towards getting rid of static libraries altogether. > From a software distribution/maintenance/updating/testing point of view its >

[sage-devel] Re: Static and shared libraries for Cygwin

2012-07-04 Thread Volker Braun
I've been thinking about this yesterday for some other reasons, and I think we should work towards getting rid of static libraries altogether. From a software distribution/maintenance/updating/testing point of view its really terrible to have static libraries floating about without knowing for s