Diego Elio “Flameeyes” Pettenò wrote:
Il giorno gio, 07/01/2010 alle 21.14 +0100, Jim Meyering ha scritto:
The change below reverts 8838ee39ab1c2bb7fffe93bfda220692664e8be6, so Diego, if your goal (with the reverted change) was more than to avoid seemingly-unnecessary work, please tell us what it was.
Well, to put it simply: you *cannot* both have the Python extension *and* disable shared libraries.
--disable-shared tells libtool not to build any kind of shared object for the project; Python extensions are shared objects _only_.
While you could avoid building libvirt.so (and just have libvirt.a) you cannot get Python extensions by just building libvirtmod.a.
So basically --disable-shared --with-python would just produce an unusable output without my change, and produce a proper error condition with.
But --disable-shared is useful, and your change broke it. As such, I can't see how you would be using --disable-shared. Does the proposed patch cause you any difficulty? If so, please tell us what/how, or propose an alternate patch.