Re: Convenience libraries build both PIC and non-PIC regardless of -static?

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello Steven,

* Steven Brown wrote on Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 04:16:42AM CET:
>
> noinst_LTLIBRARIES = libconvenience.la
> libconvenience_la_LDFLAGS = -static
> libconvenience_la_SOURCES = convenience.cc convenience.hpp

> Is there a way to tell libtool to not build those PIC objects without  
> disabling shared libraries globally in the project with  
> AC_DISABLE_SHARED?  The only thing I could find about this was this  
> thread[1] but the patch doesn't seem to have been applied.

With CVS HEAD Libtool, try
  libconvenience_la_CXXFLAGS = -static

or with either HEAD or 1.5.x, and Automake >= 1.10, try
  libconvenience_la_LIBTOOLFLAGS = --tag=disable-shared

Hope that helps.

Cheers,
Ralf