* Karl-Andre' Skevik wrote on Tue, Nov 02, 2010 at 09:26:33AM CET: > Ralf Wildenhues writes: > > * Karl-Andre' Skevik wrote on Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 11:46:38AM CEST: > >> I have an application that builds a library for use with LD_PRELOAD, > >> which should only be built dynamically. I have used a modification > >> like the one below to achieve this:
> > Thanks for the report and patch. What does -all-dynamic bring you that > > either of the following won't? > > - configure with --disable-static, > > The package also builds normal libraries that should be build both as > static and dynamic, so this option can unfortunately not be used. OK. > > - add --tag=disable-static to AM_LIBTOOLFLAGS or libfoo_la_LIBTOOLFLAGS. > > At least with libtool 1.5.26 this does not appear to have any effect, > a static library still gets built and installed. Libtool 1.5.26 is old, and the 1.5 branch not maintained any more. We have arrived at 2.4, please consider updating. That said, I *think* that this should have worked with 1.5.x already; but you need Automake >= 1.10 for support of the *_LIBTOOLFLAGS special variables. I'm guessing that you have an older Automake, because the following minimal example gets me a libfoo that is not built statically. Please report whether it does for you, and if you get a static libfoo.a, please try to modify the example so it exposes the failure in your setup. Thanks, Ralf cat > configure.ac <<\EOF AC_INIT([a], [1]) AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([foreign]) AC_PROG_CC AC_PROG_LIBTOOL AC_CONFIG_FILES([Makefile]) AC_OUTPUT EOF cat > Makefile.am <<\EOF lib_LTLIBRARIES = libfoo.la libfoo_la_LIBTOOLFLAGS = --tag=disable-static EOF : > libfoo.c autoreconf -vi ./configure make make install