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@@ -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 |