<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.26.0"> </HEAD> <BODY> On Sun, 2010-11-14 at 21:31 -0800, Dan Nicholson wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <TT>Why not just make libxf86config into a libtool library? Then libtool</TT> <TT>will take care of all the PIC details, follow the --with-pic</TT> <TT>configuration, and be static or shared as requested by the user.</TT> <TT>Here's an untested diff, but I think it's all it would take (gmail has</TT> <TT>surely broken the whitespace).</TT> </BLOCKQUOTE> If there is a need for a shared library, then that's the way to go. I can understand there was a quick fix on one distro which is Linux only. Is this option gcc only? With the patch, will the library work correctly on all the supported platforms? From Automake manual: <BLOCKQUOTE> <PRE> Building shared libraries portably is a relatively complex matter. For this reason, GNU Libtool (see <A HREF="http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/libtool.html#Top">Introduction</A>) was created to help build shared libraries in a platform-independent way. </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> List of non shared libraries: <BLOCKQUOTE> <PRE> xfree86/parser/Makefile.am:lib_LIBRARIES = libxf86config.a vfb/Makefile.am:noinst_LIBRARIES = libfbcmap.a dmx/input/Makefile.am:noinst_LIBRARIES = libdmxinput.a dmx/glxProxy/Makefile.am:noinst_LIBRARIES = libglxproxy.a dmx/config/Makefile.am:noinst_LIBRARIES = libdmxconfig.a xnest/Makefile.am:noinst_LIBRARIES = libfbcmap.a </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> </BODY> </HTML>