Re: [Xmlstar-devel] XMLStarlet 1.0.3 released

[Noam P. <npo...@us...>]

"Weddington, Eric" <Eri...@at...> writes:

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Noam Postavsky [mailto:npo...@us...]
[...]
>> Although given that distro (eg Debian's, probably others') packages
>> link with shared libraries,
>> perhaps insisting on static linking isn't worthwhile.
>> 
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> Note that static linking is preferred when building for Windows
> (host=mingw). It makes it easier to redistribute.

Well yes, what I meant was it's not worth the trouble of putting code in
configure to compute /path/to/libxml.a, when -lxml would work fine. When
building the Windows release I didn't build the shared libraries so
using -lxml there would link with libxml.a anyways.

Noam