I've uploaded a patch to the sourceforge project which applies to 5.4.(2|3) and 5.5.0 which adds a configure option --enable-shared-library and its corollary --disable-shared-library. The default is for this to be on, and it causes a libvpopmail.so to be built and linked against for the vpopmail binaries. For the vpopmail binaries this isn't such a big deal, but for anything linking against vpopmail which doesn't force static linking this can save a lot of work down the road. I saw in Tom's plans for 5.5.x that he wants this included down the road. I've done some testing with no glitches so far and am planning on putting it in my production environment (about 80K accounts) in the future, so I have some confidence in this, but in the end this is still beta at best. Its all makefile modifications, so it should be quite safe.
The only caveat is that right now you must run autoconf then aclocal then automake. Please let me know if people have issues with it, however I'm not the worlds greatest autoconf/automake person, so its very possible I won't be able to help. Hope folks enjoy it, Nick Harring Webley Systems
