On 04/02/2013 10:09 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
From: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>
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
Question: should ./autobuild.sh be tweaked to pass --enable-static, just so that we have some test coverage that ensures we don't break things for that setup? -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org