[PATCH app-xdm 06/11] greeter: only build the shared library version

Julien Cristau jcristau at debian.org
Wed Sep 15 05:31:58 PDT 2010


On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 09:24:47 -0400, Gaetan Nadon wrote:

> There is no evidence that the static version is needed since monolith
> as hinted by the comment in configure.ac.
> 
> The greeter code is now all managed by the greeter Makefile.
> The configure option enable-dynamic-greeter no longer needed.
> GREET_USER_STATIC is no longer needed.
> GREET_LIB is still needed in greet.h as it is compiled with
> both session.c for xdm execuatable and greeter shared lib.
> 
So I guess I'm a bit late with this but Debian has been using the
--disable-dynamic-greeter option since modularization.  Any reason
loading it dynamically is better?

Cheers,
Julien


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