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Satish On Thu, 21 Apr 2016, Barry Smith wrote: > > Hmm, when someone explicitly sets --with-shared-libraries=1 I think they > would be rather upset if configure ends up using ar and static libraries > because it could not find options to build shared libraries. > > Yet that is what happens now! > > Could someone add support so that if a user specifically requests > --with-shared-libraries=1 configure barfs with a nice error message if it > cannot find any? > > I think it is a trivial code change but does require the snippet go in > exactly the right place which I cannot determine > > Thanks > > Barry > >
