[GEM-dev] FYI: auto-build Gem on OSX Fink libs

[Mathieu Bouchard]

On Fri, 29 Sep 2006, zmoelnig at iem.at wrote:
> Quoting Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at eds.org>:
>> FYI, the current Gem auto-build on Mac OS X is linking against these  Fink 
>> libs:
>> For some reason, I think this is wrong.  This is the current ./ configure:
> well, it is not entirely wrong...if these libraries are installed then 
> configure will detect them and use them...
> the problem is, that this makes Gem not very fit for distribution (the more 
> dynamic libraries you have to manually install, the worse) (but i don't tell 
> you nothing new here)

Is there a way to enable static linking, at least for some libraries? It 
doesn't matter much that the gem .so becomes bigger, as long as it's not 
so much bigger, and that it's easier to carry around.

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