[OpenAFS-devel] Re: Shared libraries and the 'make dest' target

[Simon Wilkinson]

On 6 Sep 2011, at 18:12, Derrick Brashear <shadow@gmail.com> wrote:

> the work to support building static binaries is trivial compared to
> what else is to be done:
> if you just don't install the shared libraries into TOP_LIBDIR in the
> make all step, nothing will
> find them to link. all done.

Not quite. If you already have OpenAFS installed on your system, then -lafsr=
pc will pick up the system one, rather than a local static copy. We need to b=
e able to not use the -l notation when we want to link statically.

S.