Re: [libvirt] [PATCH] Disable static libraries by default
On Tue, Apr 02, 2013 at 11:26:29AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
On 04/02/2013 10:09 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> From: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange(a)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?
I guess so, though personally I'd just say no to static libraries
entirely if there was a way todo that.
Daniel
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