Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] Libtool changes checked in

[Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I suspect that if we build with "--disable-shared", we may want to
> disable plugins; at least on some platforms, statically-linked programs
> *cannot* use "dlopen()".

To quote the "libtool" info file:

     Avoid using the `-static' or `-all-static' switches when linking
  programs with libltdl.  This will not work on all platforms, because   
  the dlopening functions may not be available for static linking.