Re: [libvirt] [PATCH] Disable static libraries by default

From: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange(a)redhat.com&gt; 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 as more than 50% compared to a shared-only build time. Time for 'make -j 4': shared only: 2 mins 9 secs shared + static: 3 mins 26 secs Time for non-parallel make shared only: 3 mins 32 secs shared + static: 5 mins 41 secs Those few people who really want them, can pass --enable-static to configure