Configure.pl --parrot_is_shared option doesn't work.

[Will Coleda]

On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 5:26 PM, Andy Dougherty <doughera at lafayette.edu> wrote:
> Configure.pl currently offers a --parrot_is_shared option, apparently with
> the intent of controlling whether libparrot.so (or equivalent) or
> libparrot.a is built and used.  Unfortunately, it doesn't work.
>
> If building libparrot.so is the default on a particular platform (e.g.
> linux), setting --parrot_is_shared=0 doesn't stop libparrot.so from being
> built and used.
>
> On the other hand, if building libparrot.a is the default on a particular
> platform (e.g. solaris), setting --parrot_is_shared=1 doesn't cause
> libparrot.so to be built and used.
>
> I suspect there are two issues.  First, hints files shouldn't usually
> unconditionally override command-line settings.  That's what the linux
> hints file is doing now, I think.  Second, there are apparently a bunch of
> other related under-documented variables that need to be set in response
> to parrot_is_shared, but are currently set unconditionally.
>
> --
>    Andy Dougherty              doughera at lafayette.edu
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This is probably related to http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=53494

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Will "Coke" Coleda