[lttng-dev] Lttng-UST requires shared libraries

[lttng-dev] Lttng-UST requires shared libraries

[Abdelrahman Saeed]

Hello All,

I'm trying to configure Lttng-UST and disabling shared libraries using the
option --enable-shared=no.

I always get an Error that Lttng-UST requires shared libraries enabled.

Why is this option available if I can't use it ? Is there something I'm
missing

Regards,
Abdelrahman.
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[lttng-dev] Lttng-UST requires shared libraries

[Mathieu Desnoyers]

----- On Sep 16, 2020, at 3:57 AM, lttng-dev <lttng-dev at lists.lttng.org> wrote: 

> Hello All,
> I'm trying to configure Lttng-UST and disabling shared libraries using the
> option --enable-shared=no.

> I always get an Error that Lttng-UST requires shared libraries enabled.

> Why is this option available if I can't use it ? Is there something I'm missing

This option is only there because it's part of the autotools boilerplate. It has been disabled 
by the lttng-ust project on purpose. 

See README.md: 

"LTTng-UST needs to be a shared library, _even if_ the tracepoint probe provider is statically 
linked into the application." 

Static linking of liblttng-ust has never been a supported use-case, and would require a significant 
design/implementation effort. 

Thanks, 

Mathieu 

> Regards,
> Abdelrahman.

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