Re: enable/disable configure options for subpackages

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Thu, 14 Jul 2005, Bob Rossi wrote:
> I already use, AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS to configure the readline subpackage.
> However, by default the readline library builds both shared and static
> libraries.
>  --enable-shared         build shared libraries [default=YES]
>  --enable-static         build static libraries [default=YES]
>
> I know that when I am building the readline library, I only want the
> static libraries. Is there a way to pass in --disable-shared to the
> AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS?

I am not aware of any standard way since everything sees the same 
configuration.  However, if you are using Automake, you can duplicate 
the Makefile line that runs libtool and add a libtool option to 
disable building shared libraries when libtool is executed.

Bob
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