Hi, I'm currently looking into updating libtool in the SANE distribution.
While testing other things I wondered if it makes sense to disbale
static libraries by default (AC_DISABLE_STATIC). They can be enabled
manually by ./configure --enable-static . If shared libraries are nor
possible on a platform, static is enabled by default.
The reason is simple: time. See a comparison (latest CVS, in seconds):
both shared only
time make: 188.7 124.4
time make install: 10.5 7.9
Comments?
Bye,
Henning
