Re: [Swarm-Support] new swarm-2.1.147.20030812 snapshot rpm available

[Marcus G. Daniels]

Bill Northcott wrote:

> > > Amazing how much smaller swarm-static is with the --enable-onelib turned
> > > on. It drops from 1.1M to 23k.  Do you think that is a mistake somehow,
> > > or real?
> > All my MacOS X builds are done with --disable-static because static 
> > libraries are deprecated to the point of hostility on the system.  So I 
> > have no idea whether --onelib works to build a static library, but I don't 
> > immediatelly see why it should not.
Unless you go out of your way, libtool links shared objects but just 
names static objects comprising a collection.   That means that a 
combined archive will be small in the static case because it just a list 
of names.  I could see the the swarm-static package might be small if 
you only included the one library, and really the others were not 
included because, say, they were not `installed' archives (on the 
assumption that there was just the `onelib').