[PATCH 00/12] Fixes allowing build with --disable-shared option

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Wed, 2012-10-10 at 08:10 +1100, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-10-09 at 22:59 +0200, Andrzej Hajda wrote:
> > This set of patches fixes issues preventing build samba with
> > --disable-shared option, at least on Ubuntu 12.04.
> > 
> > Patches contains:
> > - dependency fixes,
> > - remove/rename duplicated functions,
> > - wscript for samba3 fix.
> > 
> > Patches can be applied separately.
> > 
> > Sorry for re-posting - newsgroup membership issue.
> 
> While most of these fixes look quite reasonable, I'm interested what
> brought this up?  Particularly on Ubuntu 12.04, how does
> --disable-shared help?

I'm particularly curious about this because our use of rpath means we
can install safely and easily in a prefix without interfering with a
system lib, gaining many of the advantages of a static build, without
the binary size!

> I'll comment on these patches individually. 

In summary,

Any changes you make here must, in developer waf and developer autoconf
build:
 - not introduce any more warnings (implicit declaration of function in
particular) into either the developer waf and developer autoconf build.
 - must pass a full make test in both of these

It should also in the waf build disable functionality that clearly
requires shared objects, including 'make test', and I'm not really a fan
of creating deliberately un-testable build combinations. 

Finally, I'm not sure if we even want this result - to really, really
operate without shared libraries we would have to operate without
python, and this is something the top level (waf) build requires pretty
strongly these days.  

That is, I would be very hesitant to restore --disable-shared as a
supported mode of operation if it only serves to restrict our
development options (such as using python more) or makes it even harder
for us to test that Samba always works in all supported combinations.

Thanks,

Andrew Bartlett
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