[ovs-dev] [PATCH] Use libtool for lib creation and allow building shared libs

[Helmut Schaa]

On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 10:35 AM, Helmut Schaa
<helmut.schaa at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Currently openvswitch builds all libraries static only. However,
> libopenvswitch is linked into nearly all openvswitch executables
> making it hardly possible to run openvswitch on embedded devices
> (for example running OpenWrt).
>
> Convert openvswitch to use libtool for building its internal libs.
> This allows "--enable-shared" and "--enable-static" as configure
> arguments. Default is "--disable-shared" thus keeping the current
> behavior with the only change that static libs are installed by
> "make install".

Any comments on this patch?

Thanks,
Helmut