[ovs-dev] [PATCH 5/6] openvswitch: Use libtool and allow building shared libs

[Ben Pfaff]

On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 02:05:04PM +0100, Helmut Schaa 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".
> 
> Since the openvswitch library interfaces are internal and thus not
> stable (yet) encode the openvswitch version into the library name:
> libopenvswitch-2.0.90.so
> 
> Binary size is reduced to around 1/3 when using shared libs.

I think there's something missing, because when I do "make dist" and
then try to build from the generated tarball, I get:

make[2]: *** No rule to make target `ovsdb/libovsdb.a', needed by `tests/test-ovsdb'.