[libvirt] [PATCH] let "configure --disable-shared" work once again

Daniel Veillard veillard at redhat.com
Fri Jan 8 10:48:30 UTC 2010


On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 09:05:25AM +0100, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Per this thread:
> 
>   http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.libvirt/19672
> 
> here's a patch that solves both problems:
> 
> >From 1b330b3070f904dfc1c380151afa3aaf2a121cd3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Jim Meyering <jim at meyering.net>
> Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2010 21:07:42 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH] let "configure --disable-shared" work once again
> 
> Without this change, ./autogen.sh --disable-shared && make would
> evoke a "can not build a shared library" failure for libvirtmod.la.
> However, without the -shared link option in python/Makefile.am,
> it was possible to install non-functional python support.  Instead,
> make --disable-shared also disable building python.
> 
> * configure.ac: Make --disable-shared imply --without-python and

    configure.in actually

> silently override --with-python.

  Looks fine

> * python/Makefile.am (libvirtmod_la_LDFLAGS): Do not use -shared.
> This reverts 8838ee39ab1c2bb7fffe93bfda220692664e8be6.

  I still don't understand why this need to be reverted. With the
configure.in change, then ./autogen.sh --disable-shared && make
should not try to build the python shared lib

>  configure.in       |    4 ++++
>  python/Makefile.am |    2 +-
>  2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
> index 3f2f8ff..3e98035 100644
> --- a/configure.in
> +++ b/configure.in
> @@ -1813,6 +1813,10 @@ AC_ARG_WITH([qemu-group],
>  AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED([QEMU_USER], ["$QEMU_USER"], [QEMU user account])
>  AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED([QEMU_GROUP], ["$QEMU_GROUP"], [QEMU group account])
> 
> +if test "$enable_shared:$with_python" = no:yes; then
> +  AC_MSG_WARN([you've used --disable-shared; so disabling python support])
> +  with_python=no
> +fi
> 
>  # Only COPYING.LIB is under version control, yet COPYING
>  # is included as part of the distribution tarball.

  Seems to me just that part is sufficient, no ?

Daniel

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