Thanks!
> On Apr 22, 2016, at 12:27 AM, Satish Balay <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Satish
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> On Thu, 21 Apr 2016, Barry Smith wrote:
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>> 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!
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>> 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?
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>> 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
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