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

[Daniel Veillard]

On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 12:44:49PM +0100, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Diego Elio “Flameeyes” Pettenò wrote:
> > Il giorno ven, 08/01/2010 alle 12.12 +0100, Jim Meyering ha scritto:
> >> Using -shared in python/ would now be a little misleading,
> >> since it's useful only when building with --disable-shared,
> >> and python/ is no longer built with --disable-shared.
> >
> > Not at all. It was needed to avoid building the static archive.
> 
> Oh, I see what you mean, finally.
> I had read only the first description of -shared in libtool
> documentation, and hadn't realized that was only for *compile mode*.
> There's a slightly different description following that, in the
> *link mode* options section.
> 
> Thanks for persevering.
> Here's the revised patch.
> 
> 
> >From 25dd0609205b28d8ffc2b07873b8abb75f39f2d9 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
> due to the new use of libtool's -shared link option in
> python/Makefile.am.  Now, --disable-shared also
> disables building python.
> 
> * configure.in: Make --disable-shared imply --without-python and
> silently override --with-python.
> ---
>  configure.in |    4 ++++
>  1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 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.

  Sure, ACK :-)

Daniel

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