[Vorbis-dev] ogg/vorbis build system has broken 'make profile'

[Monty]

On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 12:35:40PM -0800, Ralph Giles wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 08:03:00PM -0500, Monty wrote:
> 
> > The examples are supposed to be ststically linked to avoid exactly
> > this problem.  Is that what actually broke?
> 
> Yes. Passing --disable-shared to configure recovers that behavior.
> 
> What happened is that Apple broke static linking (of any kind)
> in their 10.2 release, and they have said they don't intend to
> fix it, even though it's a simple build bug in the system libraries,
> because, hey, static linking has never been supported. Unfortunately
> they didn't patch libtool to know about this, so any static build
> dies instead of properly falling back to shared linking on the platform. 
> 
> I felt building out of the box on MacOS was more important than
> the convenience of having static examples out of the box.

Perhaps, but it also broke a target I use regualrly.  

Is it possible to force --disable-shared on build profile?

Monty