failure building static 0.15.9

[Matthias Andree]

On Sat, 06 Dec 2003, David Relson wrote:

> As a guess, we can sacrifice.  I don't recall cross-compilation being
> mentioned on the list before this.  What's the solution?

Compile a short test program that extracts the library version from
libdb, prints it to a file, and embed that into the library name for the
static link.

> By the way, I've got patches for configure.ac, src/tests/Makefile.am,
> and src/tests/t.frame.in (new file) so that make check will use the
> static executables when --enable-static is specified.  It works fine
> except for the minor detail of using libdb.so for linking.
> 
> I'll commit my changes to CVS for your review, modification,
> extension...

OK. I admin not having much incentive to fix --enable-static though.
Certainly not a priority at the moment.

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