Re: [Xmlstar-devel] XMLStarlet 1.0.3 released

[André K. <ak...@la...>]

> On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 6:55 PM, André Kaplan <ak...@la...>  
> wrote:
>> Is there a reason with xmlstarlet is linked statically?
>>
>> Regards,
>> André
>
> According to
> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=820996&group_id=66612&atid=515109
>
>> I'm not planning to support linking with shared libraries.
>> I think having it statically liked make it self contained,
>> and easier
>> to handle for a user.
>> It also helps to avoid incomatibility problems in cases when
>> shared libraries are upgraded. Binaries which are released
>> pass regression testing with particular version of libxml2
>> and libxslt.
>
>> Thanks
>> --MG
>
> Although given that distro (eg Debian's, probably others') packages
> link with shared libraries,
> perhaps insisting on static linking isn't worthwhile.

While I understand the need for static linking under certain  
circumstances, I'd actually prefer to make a choice.
I think I've seen --enable-static options in configure.
I'd really appreciate it for xmlstarlet.

Regards,
André