On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 12:50:18PM +0200, Johannes Winkelmann wrote:
Here some general question: Why so many libraries and application are compiled with static option in configure? grep enable-static */Pkgfile|wc -l in the CLC cvs dir tells me of 12 ports (of a total number of 460 in CLC cvs) use enable-static; that's a very small number (and two of them are actually false hits, and one port (xfce4) counts twice). I'm pretty sure the respective packager has a good reason to do this, but the answer is most certainly very different from port to port. In case of the xfce4 which makes up 6 out of 9 ports using static compilation, this is IIRC to avoid getting *.a libs which are not required.
Not really ;) The configure option for all xfce4* ports is --enable-static=no to avoid building of unneeded static libraries. Greetings Jürgen -- juergen.daubert@t-online.de