[CMake] faking convenience libraries

[Brandon J. Van Every]

Bill Hoffman wrote:
> Brandon J. Van Every wrote:
>> Bill Hoffman wrote:
>>> Brandon J. Van Every wrote:
>>>> We need to compile the same underlying code 7 times for 7 different 
>>>> libraries.  3 of the resulting libs are dynamic and 4 are static.
>>>
>>> I am not following the example here.   If PCRE where a "convenience" 
>>> library you would want it
>>> to be used by both the static and shared libchicken?  There are 
>>> different compile flags for shared
>>> and static so, it would have to be compiled twice.   What are the 7 
>>> different types of libraries?
>>>
>>
>> As I said above.
> What are the differences besides static and shared.  If there are 
> differences, then I don't see how convenience libraries
> would help.  It would seem that each object file would have to be 
> compiled 7 times regardless.

There are no other differences in the PCRE library.  It is straight C 
code, not Chicken output, so it doesn't need any of Chicken's usual 
flags.  It is a properly independent sub-library.  We just don't want to 
have people doing -lchicken -lpcre, we want the PCRE library embedded in 
-lchicken.


Cheers,
Brandon Van Every