Re: [PATCH] Disable static libraries by default

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On Tue, Apr 02, 2013 at 11:23:33AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 04/02/2013 10:46 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > From: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > Every source file is currently built twice by libtool, once for
> > the shared library and once for the static library. Static libs
> > are not commonly packaged by distros and slow down compilation
> > time by almost 100% compared to a shared-only build time.
> > 
> > Time for non-parallel make
> > 
> >       shared only: 22 secs
> >   shared + static: 40 secs
> > 
> > Those few people who really want them, can pass --enable-static
> > to configure
> > 
> > Disabling them by default requires use of LT_INIT. We don't need
> > to support older libtool, so drop use of AM_PROG_LIBTOOL entirely
> > ---
> >  configure.ac | 3 +--
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > ---
> >  configure.ac | 3 ++-
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> Odd double-diffstat.  But looks like you are on a roll, doing the same
> cleanup throughout the virt stack :)
> 
> > +++ b/configure.ac
> > @@ -5,10 +5,11 @@ AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([1.11.1 foreign color-tests tar-ustar])
> >  AC_PREREQ([2.61])
> >  AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([osinfo/osinfo_db.c])
> >  AC_CONFIG_HEADERS([config.h])
> > -AC_PROG_LIBTOOL
> >  AC_PROG_CC
> >  AC_PROG_LN_S
> >  
> > +LT_INIT([shared disable-static win32-dll])
> 
> Where did win32-dll come from for this particular configure.ac?  We
> weren't previously using AC_LIBTOOL_WIN32_DLL.
> 
> ACK if you drop the unneeded option.

Actually, we should have had that all along - we're building DLLs as
part of the autobuild process ! Not sure why we didn't have trouble
without it though !

Daniel
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