Re: PATCH: minimal support for --tag in 1.4

[Gary V . Vaughan]

On Monday 25 June 2001  9:39 pm, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> > What about:
> >
> >         $ ./configure --enable-static=foo,bar --disable-shared=baz
>
> No, I reread the manual and ltconfig, and this is not right.  What
> I want to do is to disable shared libraries for a particular *library*,
> not for a *package*.  I want the virtual machine's library to be
> static-only (for speed), and yet be able to build the modules
> (networking, GUI, regex, ...) as shared libraries.
>
> Splitting the configury in two parts would allow me to use
> --disable-shared=vm for example, but it is looks like a bad
> hack to me.  I solved the problem adding "--tag disable-shared"
> to the libtool command lines in the VM's subdirectory; maybe this
> is not an orthodox (i.e. intended) way to use them, but it does
> solve the problem, it is more elegant and upwards-compatible.

A good point.  And I agree that the `Right' solution is the tags feature of 
1.5.  But I still don't think backporting some of the tags functionality into 
the 1.4 branch is a good idea.  1.4 is feature complete, and branch-1-4 is 
merely a maintenance branch to fix bugs while we concentrate of the 
development of 1.5.

Sorry =(O|

Cheers,
        Gary.
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