RFC: static / dynamic linking in samba3

[jerry]

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Michael Adam wrote:

> * I would also like to (re-)unify the configuration of libwbclient
>   with the other libs (libtalloc, libtdb, libnetapi, ...) to be
>   configured with SMB_LIBRARY().
>   This means that it will also be possible again to build and link
>   libwbclient statically, removing the restriction imposed when
>   libsmbclient was originally created that it should only be
>   possible to build/link libwbclient statically with
>   --enable-develper. I think this is artificial. Sometimes you just
>   want to link a library statically. Vendors are patching the sources
>   to allow for building and linking statically anyways.
...
>   A scheme for building (that is basically also what samba4 does)
>   initially discussed with Jelmer and Lars (among others)
>   on irc could be the following:
> 
>   - check wheter libfoo is in the system
>     and check whether it suits our version requirements
>     (current checks use pkg-config for this)
> 
>   - if libfoo is available and version is ok, then
>     adapt compile / link flags according to pkg-config to
>     link against that library
> 
>   - if either the library is not found or version is not ok,
>     then build libfoo internally and link it in _statically_

Michael,

Would you clarify one thing for me.  By default, will smbd
link with libwbcliebnt.a or libwbclient.so?





cheers, jerry
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