[libvirt] fix build failure with --disable-shared

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 09:19:17PM +0100, Diego Elio ???Flameeyes??? Petten? 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.

Agreed, if we want to support --disable-shared, then we can't pretend that
building python works. Either expect the error we already have which is
accurate, or make configure forcably disable the whole python build.


Daniel
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