shared libraries, disable by default. Not my favourite, but hey, we need to…

shared libraries, disable by default. Not my favourite, but hey, we need to build on MacOS as well...

configure

@@ -1396,7 +1396,7 @@ Optional Features:
   --disable-option-checking  ignore unrecognized --enable/--with options
   --disable-FEATURE       do not include FEATURE (same as --enable-FEATURE=no)
   --enable-FEATURE[=ARG]  include FEATURE [ARG=yes]
-  --enable-shared[=PKGS]  build shared libraries [default=yes]
+  --enable-shared[=PKGS]  build shared libraries [default=no]
   --enable-static[=PKGS]  build static libraries [default=yes]
   --enable-fast-install[=PKGS]
                           optimize for fast installation [default=yes]
@@ -4467,15 +4467,6 @@ test -z "$INSTALL_SCRIPT" && INSTALL_SCRIPT='${INSTALL}'
 test -z "$INSTALL_DATA" && INSTALL_DATA='${INSTALL} -m 644'
 
 
-BUILD_SHARED=""
-
-case $host in #(
-  *-apple-*) :
-    BUILD_SHARED="disable-shared" ;; #(
-  *) :
-
- ;;
-esac
 case `pwd` in
   *\ * | *\	*)
     { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: WARNING: Libtool does not cope well with whitespace in \`pwd\`" >&5
@@ -8441,16 +8432,7 @@ func_stripname_cnf ()
 
 
 # Set options
-
-
-
-        enable_dlopen=no
-
-
-  enable_win32_dll=no
-
-
-            # Check whether --enable-shared was given.
+# Check whether --enable-shared was given.
 if test "${enable_shared+set}" = set; then :
   enableval=$enable_shared; p=${PACKAGE-default}
     case $enableval in
@@ -8470,7 +8452,7 @@ if test "${enable_shared+set}" = set; then :
       ;;
     esac
 else
-  enable_shared=yes
+  enable_shared=no
 fi
 
 
@@ -8481,6 +8463,14 @@ fi
 
 
 
+
+        enable_dlopen=no
+
+
+  enable_win32_dll=no
+
+
+
   # Check whether --enable-static was given.
 if test "${enable_static+set}" = set; then :
   enableval=$enable_static; p=${PACKAGE-default}

configure.ac

@@ -52,7 +52,8 @@ dnl AC_MSG_RESULT(ok)
 
 AC_PROG_INSTALL
 
-LT_INIT
+dnl disable shared libraries, they break the build on MacOS... sigh
+LT_INIT([disable-shared])
 
 AC_SUBST(LIBTOOL_DEPS)