failure building static 0.15.9

[David Relson]

On Sun, 7 Dec 2003 19:51:47 +0100
Matthias Andree <matthias.andree at gmx.de> wrote:

> 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.

Matthias,

I've got a solution implemented in configure.ac and src/Makefile.am.  It
may not be the most elegant solution, but it's adequate.  I'm willing to
let it rest for the time being.

David