>>>>> "John" == John Levon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
John> On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Kalle Dalheimer wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> this might have been discussed already...
>>
>> Is there anything that speaks against linking the frontends
>> dynamically? Linking LyX takes considerable time (strange: more
>> time than linking e.g. Konqueror with much more code, taken
>> everything together), and if you only work on one frontend you
>> could save that step of linking the binary.
>>
>> This might also open the path to switching frontends dynamically
>> later ("skins" :-)), even though this might have a whole slew of
>> other problems...
>>
>> Kalle
John> I briefly mentioned the idea before. I think it would be a great
John> idea but I don't know anything about libtool. As far as I'm
John> concerned if someone (you ?) can get it working that would be
John> great (especially for those of use regularly switching
John> frontends)
It used to work at some time when configuring with --enable-shared
--disable-static.
JMarc
