[RFC] disable static libraries?

[Yaakov (Cygwin/X)]

On 2012-03-16 12:22, Charles Wilson wrote:
> On 3/15/2012 11:55 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 10:30:45PM -0500, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
>>> So my question is, do you think about adding --disable-static to the
>>> default configure flags in cygport, or is this better left to individual
>>> maintainers to (be encouraged to?) do this themselves?
>>
>> I think it sounds like it's a good idea to make it the default.
>
> I agree, as long as it can be disabled (for instance, mingw-zlib,
> mingw-bzip2, etc, which are used by setup.exe and should provide static
> versions)

Like all default configure arguments, it could be overridden  by passing 
--enable-static to cygconf or CYGCONF_ARGS.  You would need to add this 
to your libiconv and gettext packages as well.

Remember that this would only affect libtool-based builds; IIRC neither 
bzip2 nor zlib use libtool, but libgpg-error, libgcrypt, and xz do.  But 
given the nature of mingw usage, perhaps I should omit this in general 
for mingw?


Yaakov