[GRASS5] discussion on how to package binaries

[Paul Kelly]

Glynn Clements wrote:
> 
> Scott Mitchell wrote:
> 
[...]
> >
> > Then, I went back and reconfigured without --enable-shared, did a make
> > pre-compile and recompiled r.[in,out].png, and "r.tiff", then re-did
> > gmakelinks, make install-strip, and make bindist.  I thought that would
> > create binaries with everything compiled in for those particular
> > import/export routines.  Apparently I misunderstand still, because the
> > resulting programs are still looking for the right .dylib files.
> 
> --enable-shared controls whether the GRASS libraries (libgis,
> libraster etc) are built as shared libraries. It has no effect upon
> which external libraries are used.
> 

and --enable-shared is only effective if the alternate build system is
being used, i.e. --enable-gmake=no has also been specified. In fact
--enable-shared is the default so there is no need to specify it; it
simply has no effect with --enable-gmake=yes as the traditional gmake
build system doesn't support shared libraries.

The logic of the --enable-shared and --enable-gmake switches could
definitely be changed or improved as Hamish suggested recently. I would
want to wait for a consensus before changing it however, especially as
the current logic made good sense to me at the time I implemented it.

Paul