[Zlib-devel] zlib 1.2.3.2 available for testing

[William A. Rowe, Jr.]

Mark Adler wrote:
> On Sep 4, 2006, at 10:14 AM, Greg Roelofs wrote:
>> Given that it now knows how to do both,
>> is there any point in not doing so?  As in, always?
> 
> Well, it takes twice as long to build for shared.  I don't really  
> care much either way.  It shouldn't be too hard to make the default  
> shared and add an option for static.

My 2c US - build both by default when we detect we can, and let the user
override --shared or --static only.  Both have their purposes, it would
be nice to expect to find either/both.