Re: --disable-shared not working ?

[Pawel Kot]

>>> address@hidden 25 July 2003 08:59:30 >>>
>       trying to compile static gnokii on linux redhat 9
> gives me the following,
[...]
> sh ./autogen.sh --disable-shared  --disable-nls
> (...)
> 
>     Build Shared Lib:   no
> 
[...]
> address@hidden gnokii]$ ldd gnokii/gnokii
>         libbluetooth.so.1 => /usr/lib/libbluetooth.so.1 (0x40021000)
>         libXpm.so.4 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.so.4 (0x40026000)
>         libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x40035000)
>         libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/libc.so.6 (0x42000000)
>         libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x40114000)
>         /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)
> 
> 
> Am I doing something wrong or is something broken somewhere ?

It works exactly as it should. --disable-shared is about the library
(libgnokii) and not about the binary (gnokii, xgnokii).

In other words: --disable-shared builds libgnokii.a instead of
libgnokii.so.

pkot