Please paste the quoted text (appropriately expanded) into a readme or install or some other prominent doc location/appendix as soon as possible if it isn't there already. Details like this matter a lot to a few of us, and many of us haven't drunk completely the 3000 gallons of twisted logic that is the autotool conventions.
thanks, ben On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 08:44:48PM -0400, Jeff Squyres wrote: > > The default build is to make libmpi be a shared library and build all > the components as dynamic shared objects (think "plugins"). > > But we currently use Autoconf+Automake+Libtool, so to build everything > static, the standard flags suffice: > > ./configure --enable-static --disable-shared > > This will make libmpi.a, all the components are statically linked into > libmpi.a, etc. There's more esoteric configure flags that allow > building some components as DSOs and others statically linked into > libmpi, but most people want entirely one way or the other, so I won't > provide the [uninteresting] details here.
