[ expat-Bugs-601978 ] xmlwf should link statically to Expat

Bugs item #601978, was opened at 2002-08-29 13:04
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Category: Build control
Group: Feature Request
>Status: Closed
>Resolution: Rejected
Priority: 6
Submitted By: Fred L. Drake, Jr. (fdrake)
Assigned to: Greg Stein (gstein)
Summary: xmlwf should link statically to Expat

Initial Comment:
I'm sure there's a way to link the Expat library into
the executables built from the Expat distribution, but
I'm not sure what the portable "libtool way" is.

I can do this on Linux by building xmlwf using "make
LDFLAGS=-static", but doubt this will work cross-platform.

Can you add the right magic to the LINK_EXE variable in
Makefile.in?  Thanks!

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>Comment By: Fred L. Drake, Jr. (fdrake)
Date: 2003-10-07 22:26

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I'm rejecting my own report here, because I still can't
remember the answer to Greg's question of "Why?".

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Comment By: Greg Stein (gstein)
Date: 2003-01-03 14:20

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Yes, there is a libtool switch to do this, but I'm not sure
why. Why wouldn't we just link to the shared library?


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Comment By: Karl Waclawek (kwaclaw)
Date: 2002-08-29 13:10

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I am not sure I should mention this here:

But there is another issue still open, as listed
in the requirements for the next release:

The build process on Unix should create both
libexpat.{a,so} and libexpatw.{a,so} by default.



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