Re: [Patch] htdocs/install configure.html still mentions --disable-sharedas default

[Wolfgang Bangerth <wolfgang dot bangerth at iwr dot uni-heidelberg dot de>]

On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> > As far as I know, shared libs for C++ is now the default. The appended
> > patch also reflects this in the online docs.
> 
> Could you produce an improved patch that (a) covers both 2.95 series and
> current CVS

You mean, indicating that the default behaviour has changed between 2.95
and CVS? Yes, I can do that, revised patch appended.


> and (b) discusses the defaults for all other libraries in the
> tree that can be built shared or static (libgcc, libgcj, etc.)?

Being only an occasional reader of online gcc mailing list archives, I do
not feel competent to do that, sorry. I neither have an overview of the
different libs, nor how they are built and what are the defaults...

Regards
  Wolfgang

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    </li>
  
    <li> <code>--enable-shared</code> -- Build shared versions of the C++ runtime
!   libraries if supported. <code>--disable-shared</code> is the default.</li>
  
    <li> <code>--with-gnu-as</code> -- Specify that the compiler should
    assume that the assembler it finds is the GNU assembler. However,
--- 77,86 ----
    </li>
  
    <li> <code>--enable-shared</code> -- Build shared versions of the C++ runtime
!   libraries if supported. This is the default on most systems. Use
!   <code>--disable-shared</code> for static libraries. Note that up to
!   the gcc version 2.95.x series, static libraries were the default on
!   all systems.</li>
  
    <li> <code>--with-gnu-as</code> -- Specify that the compiler should
    assume that the assembler it finds is the GNU assembler. However,