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| author | Lasse Collin <lasse.collin@tukaani.org> | 2009-08-13 15:15:37 +0300 |
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| committer | Lasse Collin <lasse.collin@tukaani.org> | 2009-08-13 15:15:37 +0300 |
| commit | 66da129c8ec33dd66acc92f113f7c1ca740ca81a (patch) | |
| tree | 162e31bd77faaa402ce5c838f2230529d2053167 | |
| parent | Link lzmainfo against shared liblzma by default. (diff) | |
| download | xz-66da129c8ec33dd66acc92f113f7c1ca740ca81a.tar.xz | |
Updated INSTALL and PACKAGERS to match the changes
made in --enable-dynamic.
| -rw-r--r-- | INSTALL | 20 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | PACKAGERS | 11 |
2 files changed, 22 insertions, 9 deletions
@@ -228,10 +228,22 @@ XZ Utils Installation single-threaded applications and want to avoid dependency on libpthread. - --enable-dynamic - Link the command line tools against shared liblzma. The - default (and recommended way) is to link the command line - tools against static liblzma. + --enable-dynamic=TYPE + Specify how command line tools should be linked against + liblzma. Possible TYPES: + + yes All command line tools are linked against + shared liblzma (if shared liblzma was built). + This is equivalent to --enable-dynamic (i.e. + no =TYPE). + + mixed Some tools are linked against static liblzma + and some against shared liblzma. This is the + default and recommended way. + + no All command line tools are linked against + static liblzma (if static liblzma was built). + This is equivalent to --disable-dynamic. This option is mostly useful for packagers, if distro policy requires linking against shared libaries. See the @@ -150,12 +150,13 @@ Information to packagers of XZ Utils 4.1. Static vs. dynamic linking of liblzma - The default is to link the command line tools against static liblzma. + The default is to link the most important command line tools against + static liblzma, and the less important tools against shared liblzma. This can be changed by passing --enable-dynamic to configure, or by - not building static libraries at all by passing --disable-static to - configure. It is mildly recommended that you use the default and link - the command line tools against static liblzma, but the configure - options make it easy to do otherwise if the distro policy so requires. + not building static libraries at all by passing --disable-static + to configure. It is mildly recommended that you use the default, but + the configure options make it easy to do otherwise if the distro policy + so requires. On 32-bit x86, linking against static liblzma can give a minor speed improvement. Static libraries on x86 are usually compiled as |